"Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Opportunity Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.”
“I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.”
“Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related.”
“You have to keep surprising your audience.”

Source : "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2009.
“It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .”
“Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
“Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.”
“I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.”

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