Conquerable Quotes & Sayings

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States. — Gore Vidal

The other aspect of those weekday-evening trips he loved was the light itself, how it filled the train like something living as the cars rattled across the bridge, how it washed the weariness from his seatmates' faces and revealed them as they were when they first came to the country, when they were young and America seemed conquerable. He'd watch that kind light suffuse the car like syrup, watch it smudge furrows from foreheads, slick gray hairs into gold, gentle the aggressive shine from cheap fabrics into something lustrous and fine. And then the sun would drift, the car rattling uncaringly away from it, and the world would return to its normal sad shapes and colors, the people to their normal sad state, a shift as cruel and abrupt as if it had been made by a sorcerer's wand. — Hanya Yanagihara

Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy. — Sun Tzu

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. — Robin Marantz Henig

Fear is a powerful but conquerable emotion that is universal to all, necessary for living, ever present but constantly changing in its form. — Olarewaju Oladipo

And kind the voice and glad the eyes
That welcome my return at night. — William C. Bryant

My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation ... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep. — Louise Bourgeois

A confident soul is un-conquerable spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Surgery is the most masculine of medical disciplines, taking knives and penetrating the body to find disease and destroy it. It is a war game in which cold and shiny stainless steel is pitted against the unseen, sinister but discoverable and conquerable enemy. Pediatrics is in many ways the most feminine of medical disciplines, with its focus on small children, preventive care, nurturing. In terms of gender, neonatology seems to be somewhere in between. — John D. Lantos

I can't go on, I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece. — Maurice Jarre

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. — Robert Breault

I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him. — Tom Riley

God Save the King, — Anne Frank

He was astonished to discover that I actually preferred the Special Edition version of the original Star Wars trilogy. He shook his head, eyes widened in mock horror. "I can't even - " "Oh c'mon. Three words: better special effects." His expression grew dead serious. "Three words: Greedo shoots first." I grimaced. "Okay, you have a point there, but I'm not going to change my mind just because of that one little thing - " "One little thing?!" His mouth dropped. "That one moment changed the entire characterization of Han Solo. — Brenna Aubrey

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. — Johann Kaspar Lavater