"Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors."

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John Dryden

#Fate Quotes #Soul Quotes #Shields Quotes

“I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.”
“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.”
“Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.”
“I'm not pro-life. I'm very emphatically pro-choice.”
“Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.”
“You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain”
“All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.”

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