Quotes
Authors
Nicholas Ling
"Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them." --
Source : Jonathan BROOKS (Quaker, of Bristol.), Nicholas LING (1773). “Antiquity; or the Wise instructer. Being a collection of ... admonitions and sentences compendiously put together from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, etc. The editor's dedication signed: Jonathan Brooks. A reprint, with minor alterations, of N. Ling's “Politeuphuia. Wits Commonwealth.””, p.197
Nicholas Ling
#Adversity Quotes
#Prosperity Quotes
“My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.”
“Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.”
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“You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.”
“Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.”
“Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.”
“I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.”
“In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.”
“Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.”
