Concourir Quotes & Sayings

Here everything is planned for killing. The ground is ready to receive us, the bullets are ready to hit us, the spots where the shells will explode are fixed in time and space, just like the paths of our destiny which will inevitably lead us to them. And yet we want to stay alive and we use all our mental strength to silence the voice of reason. We are well aware that death does not immortalise a human being in the memories of the living, it simply cancels him out. — Gabriel Chevallier

If you see the dragon fly,
best you drink the flagon dry.
- Zarost — Greg Hamerton

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing. — Mavis Staples

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two? — Terrence Malick

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal ... — Bertrand Russell

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'. — Katie Chang

Summer in Karachi is brutal. The heat alone is ugly and unforgiving. Add unrelenting humidity, and the elements become merciless. The city sits on the sea but is surrounded by desert land that has been known to reach some of the hottest temperatures anywhere. When the heat reaches its peak, you feel baked in an oven and the thick, humid air gives everything an extra, hot skin. It's an effort to even lift your finger. You could get by with air-conditioning, but in this teeming, overpopulated Third World megapolis, it is a luxury few can afford. — Saad Shafqat

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo — Jean Cocteau

The world was supposed to have cheap, ugly rooms, it was a fact of life. — Christine Klocek-Lim

One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people. — Albert Einstein

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are. — Charles M. Schwab

I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.
Ganwar, I whisper,
what if she never comes? — Katherine Applegate

Buildings are forms of performances. — Rafael Vinoly

I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up. — Taran Killam

Americans' fatal tendency of disunion. — Sarah Vowell