Conciliateur Quotes & Sayings

The touch of your flesh
is tough to resist
Planets collide, collide
at the smack of your kiss
But you can kiss your brother
because we will not be lovers — The Waterboys

Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil ... the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe. — Confucius

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life. — David Walliams

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. — Sydney Smith

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature. — Warren G. Harding

Narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world. The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to happen. Any recent salient event is a candidate to become the kernel of a causal narrative. Taleb suggests that we humans constantly fool ourselves by constructing flimsy accounts of the past and believing they are true. — Daniel Kahneman

To seek absolution from humanity would be to seek my own folly. One may speak of forgiveness here, and another may actually mean it there, but legions remain who would condemn a starving man to amputation for pinching a crust of bread. We are petty creatures who seek to aggrandize ourselves by feasting on the dignity of our fellows. — Kevin Hearne

Dr. Hartmann. He was a famous neurologist from Philadelphia. — David Reuben

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right. — Benny Hill

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress. — Amy Adams

There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences. — Geeta Rao Gupta

The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention. — Jack Henry Abbott

If there was ever a time to create, it is now! — Michele Jennae