"Chance favors only those who court her."

--

Charles Nicolle

#Second Chance Quotes #Favors Quotes #Chance Quotes

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited
“Only those who row the boat make waves”
“The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.”
“Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.”
“I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.”
“The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“If better were within, better would come out.”

Source : Simon Patrick (1858). “The Works of Symon Patrick: Including His Autobiography”, p.334
“The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.”

Source : Hugh W. Nibley (2014). “NIbley Commentary of the Book of Mormon Volume 1: Commentary of the Book of Mormon”, p.17, Sharman B Hummel

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