Conflictenteller Quotes & Sayings

I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world. — Charlemagne Palestine

She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities. — Sheryl Sandberg

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. — Mignon McLaughlin

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. — Yogi Berra

I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite sure what the magic recipe is, other than he just knows how to entertain an audience, and he knows when to be gooey and sweet, and when to be provocative and naughty. — Sutton Foster

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. — John Howard

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. — Mark Twain

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics. — Edwin Moses

What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification - worshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things. — Billy Graham

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. — Robert Breault

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. — Nicolas Chamfort

Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no one is happy. — Victor Hugo

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty. — Norman Vincent Peale

No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants. — Pankaj Mishra