"Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't."

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Source : Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.15, Penguin

Dick Francis

#Football Quotes #Fate Quotes #People Quotes

“Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.”
“For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.”
“It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.”
“The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.”
“For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.”
“If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.”
“When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.”
“I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.”

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