Conseiders Quotes & Sayings

Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt. — Alexander Chee

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. — Robert Sternberg

He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear. — Alison Weir

An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete self-abnegation just like some Muslims who conseiders their sheikh as holy, some christians worship their (elder) — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Revenge was a fierce calling from deep within his soul, a cry, a demand for due recompense. — Madison Thorne Grey

He was thinking about Edith. She was constantly on the verge of canceling their marriage. She would only commission a few shows at a time, reluctantly, and if he had listened properly, she'd always been telling him that it would all end one day. — Nick Hornby

Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler. — Brad Katsuyama

It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go. — William Rotsler

I do sense that the financial system is under the gun. In order to keep our system and economies moving globally, there's the need to extend new money. — Henry Kaufman

I used to hate my hair. Now I love it. I spend hours brushing my hair out after it dries. I love it when it's big. — Petra Collins

Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes. — Alber Elbaz

It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing? — Boris Pasternak

Then an event happened that caused him to wonder at the great folly that seemed to govern his life, namely, his attempts to plan and control his future. Most of the events that changed his life had taken place without his consent and at the time had seemed of little consequence. Our destiny didn't lie in the stars, he told himself, or even in our mettle. It lay in our ability to recognize a gift when it was placed in your hands. — James Lee Burke

Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy. — Garrison Keillor