Coninalpenn Quotes & Sayings

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age. — Julie Chen

Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences. — Winston S. Churchill

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears. — Samuel Johnson

Politics are the divine science, after all. — John Adams

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens. — Donald Rumsfeld

We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism; it means telling unlike things apart. Iowa grandpas and nine-year-old girls from Ohio are simply not looking to visit 'a painful chastisement upon the Western infidels. — Bill Maher

This is newness: every little tawdry
Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,
Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you
Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,
The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.
There's no getting up it by the words you know.
No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.
We have only come to look. You are too new
To want the world in a glass hat. — Sylvia Plath

Day, would meet harm on top of it? Wasn't I safe by default? — Gillian Flynn

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. — Erica Jong