"I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool."

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Source : Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

Amanda Lindhout

#Fate Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Events Quotes

“The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. Itâ€™s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.”
“Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”
“I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.”
“People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."”
“The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.”
“Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.162, Penguin
“Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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