"What is opportunity to a man who can't use it."

-- George Eliot

#Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes #Use Quotes

“We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.”
“Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.”
“Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.”
“I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.”
“The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.”
“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.”
“Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...”

Source : L J Smith (2010). “Nightfall”, p.100, Hachette UK

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