"I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true."

-- Carlos P. Romulo

#Knowing Quotes #Luck Quotes #Wish Quotes

“The pain doesn't go away, you just make room for it.”
“As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.”
“When we shift our perception, our experience changes.”
“Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.”
“All reading for pleasure is entertainment.”
“The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.”
“In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.”
“If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.”

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