Concatenations Quotes & Sayings

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. — V.S. Pritchett

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied. — Josh Ritter

I don't like a clever toilet looking at our butts. — Emma Donoghue

Birds fly, fish swim, and children play. — Garry L. Landreth

I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over. — John Caudwell

The cell never acts; it reacts. — Ernst Haeckel

I don't believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence. — Isaac Asimov

People talk about Frank [Sinatra] all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. — Bob Dylan

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example. — John Locke

When emotionally abandoned people describe their childhoods, it is always without feeling. Alice Miller writes, They recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were. Very often they show disdain and irony, even derision and cynicism. In general, there is a complete absence of real emotional understanding or serious appreciation of their own childhood vicissitudes and no conception of their true need - beyond the need for achievement. The internalization of the original drama has been so complete that the illusion of a good childhood can be maintained. — John Bradshaw

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking
responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world. — Cesar Millan

Some people need Hell. If you're the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, "Hey, now there's something I could rape and kill without any consequences," then the concept of Hell might really keep you out of trouble. — Sarah Silverman