Wilbur Smith Quotes
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
Wilbur Smith
Quotes to Explore
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Lady Gaga
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
Yayoi Kusama
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
Yanis Varoufakis
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
Irvine Welsh
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
N. K. Jemisin
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It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God...
Edward McKendree Bounds
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All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.
Ken Robinson
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There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
Bill Vaughan
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He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
Tad Williams
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
Aristotle