"That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves."

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Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

Garth Stein

#Ignorance Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Intention Quotes

“I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends”
“From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.”
“When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.”
“One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.”
“I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.”
“I think if terrorists had nuclear materials and found people to put a bomb together - both of which are possible - we would already have seen a nuclear explosion. But we have literally thousands of people around the world working their tails off and making a lot of sacrifices to contain nuclear materials. I particularly would like to compliment the Russians on this. In times of great economic distress, many of them could have made an awful lot of money if they had sold their expertise.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You ever tried to pick up your teeth with a bunch of broken fingers”
“Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?”

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