Equality of opportunity means equal opportunity to be unequal.
Quotes
Horace
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Attributed to Alexander (late July, 356 BC – 10 June 323 BC), as quoted in The British Battle Fleet by Frederick Thomas Jane
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Robert Frost
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Julia Sorel 1926-
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Jonathan Winters
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1834
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Anonymous
The artist doesn’t see things as they are, but as he is.