Conrad Valmont Quotes & Sayings

I want to win as much as anybody. But what am I supposed to do? Go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks? — Cory Lidle

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag. — Doug Stanhope

Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations. — Eric Hobsbawm

I wish I could hear more children say I can do something instead of I can't! Self-motivation will always lead them to greater & better heights in their lives! — Timothy Pina

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. — Ernestine Rose

What makes you think I am not teaching you? Aside from the fact that you refuse to learn. — Patrick Rothfuss

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them. — Anna Kendrick

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that. — Pliny The Elder

They fell like wolves
At each other's throats,
Like bulls bellowing,
And horses gasping for breath
That have run all day. — Herbert Mason

It makes sense that your response to a bad break-up line would be to set someone on fire," I responded. "Fire is magical to us because it embodies the passage of time. We can never grasp time because it is invisible, unreachable and continually slipping from our grasp. Do we live in the present? How can we? The present is infinitesimally small. It can't contain human action. We teeter on the brink between our assumed future...where we will be in moments to come...and our memory of the past...where we think we just were. The present doesn't exist in a comprehensible way. Similarly, fire is something we can neither grasp nor touch, yet it has a clear effect...the decay and collapse of life, the acceleration of entropy. Thus when we stand mesmerized by fire, we are actually mesmerized by our own mortality. — David David Katzman

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. — Dante Alighieri

To have a sense of education and ethics is important. — Soleil Moon Frye