“I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.”
Source: Prep (2005), p. 325
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Letter to H.P. Bremmer, 17-11-1930, City Archive The Hague, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 50 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
1930's

“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“I could have been stronger,” she said. “I wasn’t enough to keep something so important.”
Source: Tiger Lily

Amy Longsdorf (April 15, 2007) "Berry dares to leave drama queen behind her", Courier-Post, Section: B, p. 15G.
Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Context: And the college business: My parents wanted me to go, I didn’t want to go, and I didn’t go. I got what I wanted. Those who don’t go to college have to get jobs. I agreed with all this. I told myself all this over and over. I even got a job—my job breaking au gratin dishes. But the fact that I couldn’t hold my job was worrisome. I was probably crazy. I’d been skirting the idea of craziness for a year or two; now I was closing in on it.

“The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.”
Apple Special Event Keynote (1 September 2010)
2010s