Contemplator Communication Quotes & Sayings

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My hand lowered slowly to my side. It trembled. "There is no affection," I said, each syllable a measured force of emotion I dared not allow purchase, "that will endure when treated as a thing. — Karina Cooper

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri

Babe Paley simply never made an empty gesture, and here she was, assembling a parade of them. But her feet, her hands, her mind, her heart, were all restless. Truman. — Melanie Benjamin

Good and bad - this is the story of my life. — Martha Reeves

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come. — Joyce Meyer

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed. — Elon Musk

You exaggerate your own reactions. — Dylan Moran

Diana accepted the bait, spat out the hook with contempt, and hurried away to the stables to consult with Thomas, — Patrick O'Brian

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass? — Joseph Stalin

Problem never comes alone. — Vijay Dhameliya

I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be [covering] kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man. — Bart Scott

Faith isn't a crutch used by the frail to prevent them from falling over. Faith is our mighty staff which we wield as we walk through the valley of our personal shadow of death. — Robert Palasciano

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere ... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality ... That this promise was an illusion we all know. — Peter Drucker