Complaciente Quotes & Sayings

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead. — Roger Scruton

Deborah just watched him as he skidded to a stop in front of her. He seemed young for a dentist, maybe thirty, and in all honesty he looked a little too buff, too, as though he had been pumping iron when he should have been filling cavities. Deborah — Jeff Lindsay

If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.' — Hermann Broch

When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.' — Bob Newhart

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. — Mortimer J. Adler

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover. — James M. Barrie

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100. — Wilt Chamberlain

Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle? And when these four are joined together they make a terrible force, and constitute the new authority. — Oscar Wilde