"All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Risk Quotes #Quality Quotes #Chance Quotes

“On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.”
“One who knows nothing can understand nothing”

Source : "Fictional character: Ansem". Video Game "Kingdom Hearts", www.imdb.com. September 17, 2002.
“Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.”
“Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.”

Source : "Q&A with Tom Colicchio". Interview with Victorino Matus, www.weeklystandard.com. March 8, 2012.
“Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man”

Source : "The Arte of English Poesie". Book by George Puttenham and Richard Puttenham, 1589.
“I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.
“Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.”
“It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilisation.”

You may also like: