"Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind."

-- Abraham Cowley

#Past Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
“I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.”
“Presenting Saturday mornings has been a dream for a long time. And one day in September I am going to wake up very early and it will be a reality. I can't wait.”
“Honestly, I don't like to brag about myself, but I really think I'm the only boxer who came out better from a Hopkins fight.”

Source : "Pascal: 'I learned from the Hopkins fights'" by Brian Campbell, proxy.espn.com. January 15, 2014.
“My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.”
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”
“Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.”
“Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.”

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