"So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Miracle Quotes #Luck Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.”

Source : Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee
“A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.”
“Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.”
“Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.”
“The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.”

Source : Mat Johnson (2015). “Loving Day: A Novel”, p.6, Spiegel & Grau
“If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.”
“Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.”

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