"Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome."

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Source : Wilbur Smith (2014). “River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt”, p.418, St. Martin's Griffin

Wilbur Smith

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“Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.866, Penguin
“Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.”
“If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.”
“I don't like to play the victim.”
“May God .. let me strive for attainable things.”
“If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.”
“There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.”
“Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.”

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