"There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance."

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Source : Daphne du Maurier (1969). “My Cousin Rachel”

Daphne du Maurier

#Second Chance Quotes #Return Quotes #Chance Quotes

“We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend the Seamless Robe of Jesus Christ ... Those who would not join Noah in his ark perished justly in the deluge; and these have justly suffered famine and hunger who would not receive as their shepherd the blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles.”
“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want”
“Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.”
“Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.”
“I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar.”
“Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.”
“How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a ***** cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...”

Source : "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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