"There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you."

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Source : "The Armies of the Night". Book by Norman Mailer, 1968.

Norman Mailer

#Knowing Quotes #World Quotes #Wave Quotes

“The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.”
“When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Not Avail
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
“Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.”
“I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that”
“In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.”
“Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries”
“Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there.”

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