Conrads Quotes & Sayings

I had kissed the monster who governed our world — Rosamund Hodge

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we've finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they've moved again. — Chrissie Wellington

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy. — Gerald May

I don't go for holidays or celebrate my success because I know nothing is permanent. I don't let it get to me - like I am India's top director with too many hits. If that happens, I might lose the connect with my audience. The day I go wrong, they will run away from me. I want to be like an assistant director all my life. — Rohit Shetty

The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life. — Edward Gibbon

To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it. — Fred Allen

We take this idea of love with us into adulthood. Grown up, we hope for a re-creation of what it felt like to be ministered to and indulged. In a secret corner of our mind, we picture a lover who will anticipate our needs, read our hearts, act selflessly and make everything better. It sounds 'romantic'; yet it is a blueprint for disaster. — Alain De Botton

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed. — Julian Casablancas

Education is no substitute for intelligence. — Frank Herbert

In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that. — Rainbow Rowell

Much has been written and sung of the things we do for love and friendship. Not as much about the mistakes we make trying to banish lonliness. — Jimmy A. Lerner

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun. — Amy Chow