People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Rufus Sewell
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THE CREE PEOPLE Failure is opportunity knocking on your door.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO The worst day was the day I got the knocking at the door and I got the news. I guess that's every pa...
CONNIE KYRIACOU If the knocking at the door is twice, it is not opportunity, it is postman.
VIKRANT PARSAI Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
FRANK TYGER My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and t...
FREDDY ADU Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I was in my room, Trey, came knocking on my door at the end of the complex and told me a fire -we go...
D'ANNE GRAY We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.
BARRY ALVAREZ If the knocking at the door is loud and long, it is not opportunity, it is your relatives.
VIKRANT PARSAI The swinging gate worked great for us all night,
JOHN WELCH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushe...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushe...
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE …the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experiment...
NICKI MINAJ It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, ......
BERNARD HOPKINS My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble of...
HANK AARON Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
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keep step to the music of the Unio...
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Find out what my Individual Divine
ALLAN RUFUS I wish you all
an ego free
driven day!
ALLAN RUFUS Note to Self – Thoughts design my energy!
My
thoughts
WILL
<...
ALLAN RUFUS Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!
ALLAN RUFUS NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT
My words, thoughts and deeds have
a boomera...
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Your life mainly consists of 3 thi...
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and someday the rewards will follow
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Don’t
be caught up in yo...
ALLAN RUFUS Your Hands And Feet
Gets Your Mind
To Where It Wants To Be!
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It was great until those old magaz...
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QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one
cautious enough to resist the effects of ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting;
gratitude for benefits eternal.
[Lat.,...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS Fear makes men believe the worst.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
RUFUS M. JONES A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 The great wonder is ...
RUFUS M. JONES A book is the only immortality.
RUFUS CHOATE EDWARD YOUNG