"It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well."

-- Sydney Thompson Dobell

#Opportunity Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.”

Source : Julie Berry (2013). “All the Truth That's In Me”, p.138, Penguin
“There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.”
“If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.”
“But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.”
“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”
“Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.”
“I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?”
“Jung Min’s palms are always sweating and he wears strange socks!”

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