Contemplan Quotes & Sayings

And if that hadn't been enough, the castle cat, obviously female and obviously in heat, had sashayed in, tail straight up and perkily curved at the tip, and wound her furry little self sinuously around Adam's ankles, purring herself into a state of drooling, slanty-eyed bliss. Mr. Black, my ass, she'd wanted to snap (and she liked cats, really she did; she'd certainly never wanted to kick one before, but please - even cats?), he's a fairy and I found him, so that makes him my fairy. Back off.
-Gabby's thought on Adam — Karen Marie Moning

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. — Richard Whately

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak. — Tom Wolfe

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. — Al Gore

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players. — Jose Mourinho

Mort isn't my name, of course - I was creative director of mortality, and Dr. Jeth had us all go by titles. — Tom Francis

Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's just been so true to me. And I do try to take some practices of that into my daily life. Whether that's meditating or trying to see the world from that perspective. — Joan Osborne

Interestingly, at one stage, Glaxo approached us, willing to give a manufacturing contract for its baby food to Amul. I said we could consider it on the condition that it would carry the Amul brand name. This so incensed the Glaxo boss that he is said to have declared: 'Amul will never be able to sell its brand of baby food and when their tins begin rotting on the shelves, I will have them collected and thrown into the Arabian Sea!' Such was the arrogance of multinationals. — Verghese Kurien

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one. — A.W. Tozer

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts. — Dalai Lama

I had been lucky that my physiology is well suited to space training. — Helen Sharman

You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. — Penn Jillette

The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way. — Aaron Siskind

A new truth; that a woman can be just as cruel and dehumanized as a man, and that all safety is an illusion. — Morrissey

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life. — Dennis Miller