Calembours Def Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in wait at every corner for those who have escaped them. Moreover, wickedness usually reigns, and folly does all the talking. Fate is cruel, and human beings are pathetic. — Arthur Schopenhauer

He that feares death lives not. — George Herbert

Sometimes you need to get lost for a little. — Gillian Flynn

The world is passing away. — Francis De Sales

Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Thus thou must use to keep thyself to the first motions and apprehensions of things, as they present themselves outwardly; and add not unto them from within thyself through mere conceit and opinion. — Marcus Aurelius

Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us. — George C. Scott

If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people. — James C. Collins

The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact. — Peter Watts

And of course, the one that I really wanted to see, stayed completely hidden away from me and I let him even though it kind of killed me. — S.C. Stephens

A Dream can be in Our Mind the Happiness we are Looking for. — Jan Jansen

Application is complication', — John Lechte

I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line. — Fabrice Muamba