"Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait."

-- John Milton

#Opportunity Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Duty Quotes

“I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.”
“There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess”

Source : Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”
“I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.”
“Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.”

Source : Peter Abelard (2012). “Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag
“Poetry is the Devil's wine.”
“And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.”
“The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.”
“How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.”

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