Confrontacional Quotes & Sayings

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon

I jokingly refer to the word 'gourmet' as the 'g' word. — Arthur Schwartz

I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills. — Peter Nygard

Ter refused to ride buses. The people depressed him, sitting there. He liked Greyhound stations though. We used to go to the ones in San Francisco and Oakland. Mostly Oakland, on San Pablo Avenue. Once he told me he loved me because I was like San Pablo Avenue. He was like the Berkeley dump. I wish there was a bus to the dump. We went there when we got homesick for New Mexico. It is stark and windy and gulls soar like nighthawks in the desert. You can see the sky all around you and above you. Garbage trucks thunder through dust-billowing roads. Gray dinosaurs. — Lucia Berlin

It is customary, in England at least, for Coroners' courts to give the verdict 'Suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed'. This insult automatically puts the victim in the wrong and reassures Society that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Have you ever noticed that Socialist governments have a particular horror of the individual's suicide? It is a direct criticism of their basic tenets. — Nanavira Thera

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across. — Marian Diamond

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue. — Paulo Coelho

The conscience is the tool that God the Holy Spirit uses to convict us, bring us to repentance, and to receive the healing of forgiveness that flows from the gospel. — R.C. Sproul

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. — Peter Kay

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go. — Anoushka Shankar

My rule is to save myself first. — Kevin Hart