Consuetudinario Quotes & Sayings

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face. — Karen Marie Moning

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. — Arthur Miller

The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory. — Henry Blackaby

The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A. — Bhante Walpola Piyananda

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood. — Nicole Trunfio

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being. — Samuel Florman

If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you're doing probably isn't very vital.
If you don't feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you're not trying to tell enough. — John Irving

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive. — Oscar Wilde

Have a goal in life. When water is everywhere, it is a flood, but if it is in between banks, it is a river. It is nice to have a goal, so your life force gets channelized! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation. — Robert De Niro

The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths. — J. Bowyer Bell

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational. — Paul Krugman

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person. — Marianne Faithfull

Humanity will live as long as there are humans. — Vasily Grossman