Cognitiont Quotes & Sayings

There is a great deal in choosing colours that go well with one's complexion. People think of that for their dresses, but not for their rooms., which are of so much more importance. I should have liked blue, but blue gets so soon tawdry. I think, (...) that I have enough complexion at present to venture upon a pale spring green. — Mrs. Oliphant

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband. — Billie Burke

The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children. — Andy Stanley

The Beat spokesman, surprisingly, seemed to be satisfied with the ethics that we have inherited. — Paul Goodman

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family. — Lenny Kravitz

Some dogs bite. So you keep them away from people. You can't just get rid of them, for being the way they are. And now and then you can be glad to have them around, to snarl the way a good dog never does. — Marilynne Robinson

The promise given was necessity of the past: the word borken is a necessity of the present -Niccolo Machiavelli — Michael Scott

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law. — Paul Cellucci

It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the distinctive charm that this sort of mixture of sublimity, sickness, and childishness has to offer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every man who knows anything of languages, knows that it is impossible to translate from one language into another, not only without losing a great part of the original, but frequently of mistaking the sense. — Thomas Paine

All statistics have outliers. — Nenia Campbell

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself. — Darrell Calkins

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted. — James Joyce