Opportunity Dances With Those Quotes & Sayings

Syd is behind us stuffing the last of his gear in his bag hastily. I woke him up late. I waited until Alissa and I were already set to go and he's scurrying to catch up with us. Was it on purpose? A power play of some kind? A petty manipulation on my part to feel in control?
You bet your ass it was. — Tracey Ward

Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction. — Oprah Winfrey

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I believe you, Sadie."
"Oh really. I'm holding the bloody feather of truth, and you believe me. Well, thanks. — Rick Riordan

So we may well believe that the King's men were shriven on the night before they fought. Something of the young man's vision had penetrated to his captains and his soldiers. Something of the new ideal of the Round Table which was to be born in pain, something about doing a hateful and dangerous action for the sake of decency
for they knew that the fight was to be fought in blood and death without reward. They would get nothing but the unmarketable conscience of having done what they ought to do in spite of fear
something which wicked people have often debased by calling it glory with too much sentiment, but which is glory all the same. This idea was in the hearts of the young men who knelt before the God-distributing bishops
knowing that the odds were three to one, and that their own warm bodies might be cold at sunset. — T.H. White

Because he knew that he was coming for the last time. That morning he had been expelled from the Architectural School of the Stanton Institute of Technology. — Ayn Rand

The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life. — Edward Gibbon

History is past politics, and politics is present history. — Edward Augustus Freeman

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. — Phoebe Stone

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. — Daniel M. Gilbert

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer! — Erica Jong

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths. — Elizabeth George

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it. — Ibn Majah

Inspirasi tak mengenal kata mati
There is no death for inspiration. — Skylashtar Maryam

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. — Joan Bauer