Concocts Quotes & Sayings

as Lucretius wrote: "our appetite for life is voracious, our thirst for life insatiable — Carlo Rovelli

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one. — Anna Quindlen

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking. — Ian Somerhalder

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work. — Mark Rutte

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. — Orison Swett Marden

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions. — Richard Dawkins

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. — Joseph Campbell

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target. — Terry Farrell

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit. — Chris Cornell

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along. — Michio Kaku

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back. — Bono

I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost. — Erik Fosnes Hansen

Madams Manec's energy, Marie-Lauren is learning, is extraordinary; she burgeons, shoots off stalks, wakes early, works late, concocts basques without a drop of cream, loaves with less than a cup of flour. They clomp together through the narrow streets, Marie-Laure's hand on the back of Madame's apron, following the odors of her stews and cakes; in such moments Madame seems like a great moving wall of rose bushes, thorny and fragrant and crackling with bees. — Anthony Doerr

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts. — John Ashbery

A writer concocts a different story for every reader. — Mike Bryan

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky