"It is the unforeseeable that creates the event."

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Georges Braque

#Serendipity Quotes #Events Quotes

“If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.”
“Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,”
“We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes.Â We are trying to make steady and permanentÂ what is by nature impermanent.”
“We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools...now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One....The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.”
“You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work.”
“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics
“It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.”

Source : Song: Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes, 1977
“What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to show what kind of champion you are and deal with whatever is put in front of you. This is just another obstacle, and if it does go to court then I will be as equally determined to overcome it.”

Source : "Court threat to Hatton unification bout". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2005.

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