Contendere Quotes & Sayings

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement. — Carol Tavris

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing. — Aurangzeb

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic. — E.F. Benson

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify. — John Wesley

At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream. — E.B. White

I've been grasping at nothing, running in circles, trying desperately to fill the emptiness inside with nothing but air. If I think about it too much, I feel shame, so much shame. So I don't. — Kerry Cohen

To Fitz and the Fool.
My best friends for over twenty years. — Robin Hobb

Please, do you see the apocalypse? Because I'd give up on that happening until you do. And even then, it's negotiable."
"I'm holding out for a hot zombie."
"Yeah, or, like, the hot scientist who finds the cure."
"Or the hot government agent who's assigned to protect you from the international terrorist who plans to wipe out the nation with the world's first zombie virus weapon of mass destruction."
"Because you carry the zombie virus antidote in your blood."
"Exactly."
"It's a recessive trait. — Jocelyn Davies

The Supreme Court has declared that such a plea of nolo contendere "admits guilt for the purposes of the case. — George W. Stocking