Congers Quotes & Sayings

Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us. — Jamie Drummond

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it. — Tom Shadyac

Dom Paulo had not expected to convince him. But it was with a heavy heart that the abbot noticed the plodding patience with which the thon heard him through; it was the patience of a man listening to an argument which he had long ago refuted to his own satisfaction. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never. — Charles Hugh Smith

And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing. — Brom

Duh, I'm hungry and your wife ate everything in the fridge. — N K Pockett

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers? — Plutarch

For a thought cannot be un-thought, anymore than the world can be un-made, & thus we can never escape the consequences of our mistake, not without great price, & cost, & pain. Or perhaps not even then. — Gemma Files

My body floated, loose from spent pleasure. — Anna Funder

When once one believes in a creed, one is proud of its complexity, as scientists are proud of the complexity of science. It shows how rich it is in discoveries. If it is right at all, it is a compliment to say that it's elaborately right. — G.K. Chesterton

Energies are to be expressed precisely with the person you don't get along with. The energies are already there in dealing with the person you do get along with. 'Not being able to get along' is a weakness. — Dada Bhagwan

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public ... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her. — Rainbow Rowell

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. — Anonymous

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments. — Arnold Gingrich

I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things. — Michael Jackson

We try to find better solutions - our customers have given us a lot of trust. — Phil Schiller