"Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us."

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Source : Sarah Dunant (2004). “The Birth of Venus: A Novel”, p.102, Random House

Sarah Dunant

#Eye Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“Nothing will carry you through hardship like a sincere devotion to Christ.”
“I've never bought a stock unless, in my view, it was on sale.”

Source : "John Neff on Investing". Book by John Neff, October 22, 1999.
“The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.”
“In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.”
“It's not my duty as an architect to look at it”
“I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.”
“My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.”
“Itâ€™s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after Iâ€™m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. Iâ€™ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after youâ€™re dead.”

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