"People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door."

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Rufus Sewell

#Opportunity Quotes #Doors Quotes #People Quotes

“Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.266, Random House
“I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.”

Source : Song: Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
“Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.”
“If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.”
“When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.”
“I'm not a doctor, nor am I a member of the military. What I am is an appreciative, concerned American citizen, who was horrified when I heard about the horrendous rates of suicide (22 per day) and PTSD/TBI within our military. As such, I felt compelled to reach out to anyone who cared to listen, to try to help with this terrible situation. This is not just life and death - it is life and death for those who defend our freedom.”
“It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.”
“What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.”

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