Victorian Gambling Quotes

#1. Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

Donald Miller

#2. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#3. A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.

Theodor Adorno

#4. I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.

Dwyane Wade

#5. You just have to say, 'It's pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I'm OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'

Melissa McCarthy

#6. I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#7. A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

Oliver Goldsmith

#8. Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

Norman Rockwell

#9. What could be more exciting! As long as you're fascinated and as long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

Edna Ferber

#10. Kings were always the last to feel the famine. That

James S.A. Corey

#11. When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.

Ahmed Zewail

#12. Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

Raquel Cepeda

#13. Every time she allowed her gaze to wander to the group at the piano, she found Lord Wentworth's eyes on her. In the end it was easier to study the patterns in the ornate rug on which her chair sat. She was glad when the evening ended.

Susan Leona Fisher

#14. We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Christopher Reeve

#15. I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.

Lorde

#16. I don't have enough yet," by which the ego really means, "I am not enough yet.

Eckhart Tolle