"The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open."

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Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2001). “Dune: House Corrino”, Spectra

Brian Herbert

#Eye Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes

“My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.”
“It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph.... my images [are] something that is not a frozen moment, but an image made up of many moments and that is created over time rather than taken.”
“There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.”
“Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about, it's hyperbole.' Maybe it is. ... But I would say is that if you are not concerned that democracy could produce bad people, I don't think you're really thinking this through too much.”

Source : "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.
“It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.”
“When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.”
“Practice is practice, chicken is chicken.”
“I think a goal is a goal and not all my goals are pretty.”

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