Conservers Quotes & Sayings

Some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight. — Charles Bukowski

It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realise that the colour of an eye half seen, or the source of some distant sound, are closer to Giudecca in the hell of unknowing than the existence of God, or the origins of protoplasm, or the eistence of self, and even less worthy than these to occupy the wise, It's a bit much, a lifetime, to achieve this consoling conclusion, it doesn't leave you much time to profit by it. — Samuel Beckett

It wasn't the victory of one man or the death of another. It was the death of the future, and of our youth, because we might be rather old before the conservers left and the compassionate men came back. Saturday. — Gloria Steinem

Life isn't about finding yourself. It's mostly about chocolate. — Darynda Jones

It quickly became apparent that the Germans were interested in using our strength but not in preserving it. We received a ration of "flower coffee" - made not from coffee beans but from flowers, or maybe acorns. We each had half a loaf of bread, which had to last us from Sunday to Wednesday. At midday, we had a cold soup made from broken asparagus that couldn't be sold, or a mustard soup with potatoes, and maybe a hard-boiled egg. At night, we had a milk soup; on lucky days, it contained some oatmeal. — Edith Hahn Beer

The man was Halpin Frayser. He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead. — Ambrose Bierce

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude. — Stephen Richards

Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute. — Gore Vidal

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition — Jaroslav Pelikan

Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it? — Percy Lubbock

I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel." — Aldis Hodge

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you. — Iris Johansen

I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids. — Jennifer Garner

Love is perhaps the strongest force in the universe. When you meditate with love, what you do is you feel love. Love is like a bird, you get on its back and you ride it up very high above the thought level. — Frederick Lenz

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain. — Francis Kilvert