Conchata Quotes & Sayings

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way. — Marquis De Sade

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life. — James Russell Lowell

It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love. — Pope Benedict XVI

God has great riches for you. If thy will seek Him. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history — Herman Ebbinghaus

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians. — Graeme Murphy

I'm very good at plot. — Matthew Reilly

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really. — Dhani Harrison

Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show. — Richard Masur

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. — Jim Butcher

What God says I am is what I am: great soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Yesterday I was, tomorrow I will be, but only Here and Now I Am. — Human Angels

Kids don't really get to hear their parents giggle enough if you ask me... — David Levithan