#peri

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#amsterdam #avoiding #being #bell #concept

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits of a vigorous mind are formed contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#experience

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#end #experience #finds #himself #his

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#beginning #being #centuries #century #comes

Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise it is all just for the experience. Learn to create your own destiny, don't wait to see what fate throws your way. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#chance #choices #destiny #fate #game-of-chance

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#away #between #day #lies #minute

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#close #close friends #could #dinner #dinner parties

Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world. ↗

— Marion Ross

#experience #happy #happy days #i #traded

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#development #director #experience #extensive #external

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#area #back #because #better #chance