| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c4bf14e | Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. | failure luck near-hits near-misses nearly success | Neil Gaiman | |
| 68bd543 | How many close encounters with death can one person survive? At the age of 21, I had surpassed more than 10 such close encounters with death, which began when I was but 5 years of age. This enemy who has been hotly pursuing me for more than 16 years has no shame to his game at all. At least with me there were certain things I would've never done, and knowingly hurt a child was just one of them. | death enemy hot-pursuit near-misses principles street-code survival | Drexel Deal |