"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Creativity Quotes #Decision Quotes #Chance Quotes

“I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.”
“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”

Source : Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.112, Penguin
“That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety - our own security - depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation, and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.”
“It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.”
“Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.”
“Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.”

Source : Clifford G. Shull's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1994.
“I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“When it's in the slot, give it the lot!”

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