"What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?"

-- Jim Butcher

#Eye Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.”
“A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.”
“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
“Since I'm not focusing on my speed as much now as I was heading into the combine, I'm really focusing on my position work, trying to perfect how I play the safety position. I've been doing a lot of backpedaling and drills that focus on turning my hips, which help me out on the football field.”

Source : Source: www.nfl.com
“In Ukraine, there has never been a consensus behind NATO membership. Even Yulia Tymoshenko was noncommittal when she was still prime minister. Georgia under President Mikhail Saakashvili pursued a rather aggressive stance, which stood in the way of its NATO membership. Given both states' unique relationships with Russia, concerns were justified that NATO membership would trigger Russia's reasonable fears of encirclement.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.”

Source : "The Book of Military Quotations". Book by Peter G. Tsouras, p. 124, 2005.
“I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.”

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