![I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-had-lots-of-opportunities-to-survive-this-popularity-madness-madame-de-stael.jpg)
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opportunity deuces letters
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy. Charles Dickens
opportunity men often-is
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy. Charles Caleb Colton
opportunity female lovers
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
opportunity mind glory
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
opportunity extremity
Our extremities are God's opportunities. Charles Spurgeon
opportunity honor denial
When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.
opportunity library today
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. Alan Moore
opportunity voice people
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
opportunity giving people
I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity. Alan Green
mourning today ruins
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. Catherynne M. Valente
mourning sorrow tears
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. Edward Everett
mourning
I'm in mourning for my life. Anton Chekhov
mourning black said
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
mourning wear
Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.
mourning absence mates
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate Edmund Spenser
mourning care way
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. Edmund Burke
mourning narcissistic heal
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning. Alice Miller
mourning feelings language
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead. Andrew Jackson
madness mood
That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood. Edna St. Vincent Millay
madness moments chinks
Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. Arundhati Roy
madness sanity remnants
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself. Anthony Trollope
madness glory
Like madness is the glory of life. William Shakespeare
madness composing profession
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness. Arthur Honegger
madness distraction
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. Bruce Sterling
madness touch
There is a touch of madness to it. Kristan Bromley
madness method though
Though this be madness, yet there is method
madness masterpiece
You can’t have a masterpiece without madness, Alejandro Jodorowsky