Cognation Quotes & Sayings

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more. — Jamie Zawinski

I'm going to find Julie and I'll ground her ass until she forgets what the sun looks like, and then I'll go over to that school and pull their legs out. — Ilona Andrews

In my art history degree course, we did a module on palimpsests - medieval sheets of parchment so costly that, once the text was no longer needed, the sheets were simply scraped clean and reused, leaving the old writing faintly visible through the new. Later, Renaissance artists used the word pentimenti, repentances, to describe mistakes or alterations that were covered with new paint, only to be revealed years or even centuries later as the paint thinned with time, leaving both the original and the revision on view.

Sometimes I have a sense that this house - our relationship in it, with it, with each other - is like a palimpsest or pentimento, that however much we try to overpaint Emma Matthews, she keeps tiptoeing back: a faint image, an enigmatic smile, stealing its way into the corner of the frame. — J.P. Delaney

Paid the last debt of nature — Alexandre Dumas

Try as you may, you can never defy love. — Emery Lee

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. — Mahatma Gandhi

If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living? — Sharon Shinn

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

A ... look that seemed to know what there was on the other side of things. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life. — Fatima Bint Muhammad