"Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it."

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Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.116, Macmillan

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

#Fall Quotes #Trying Quotes #Disaster Quotes

“Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.”
“If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.”
“A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. Thatâ€™s the power of story.”
“Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.”
“I stopped playing video games, I stopped playing other sports, and I just dove head first into wrestling and it's been my passion ever since I discovered it.”

Source : "Kevin Owens talks WWE 2K17 and teaming with Chris Jericho at Summerslam". Interview with Matt Fowler, za.ign.com. August 22, 2016.
“We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.”
“Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.”

Source : "Hail, Columbia" l. 1 (1798)
“Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.”

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