Contentar Shops Quotes & Sayings

People often thought it was the loud and rowdy Davies men that ruled the house. But it was actually her mother, Marcy Davies, all five-feet seven inches — Kathleen Brooks

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices. — Michel De Certeau

Trying to live without community is like trying to live without oxygen. We weren't created to do it. — Jefferson Bethke

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked. — John Hickenlooper

People are always asking me for my favorite recipe, and I have to say, 'I don't really have one.' — Lesley Nicol

Our divorce was an optical illusion, surely, because I am often still there, in my old home with my family. I can so easily fool myself, even without a scope, a lens, a patch of sky to measure my trauma, my blues, my perspective or my period of mourning. Suspension of disbelief can be a very real kind of haunting. — Jalina Mhyana

Work hard. Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased. — Carole Estrup

wave. The members of the rising generation are the most flagrant offenders, and in the decay and disappearing of parental authority we have the certain precursor of the abolition of civic authority. Therefore, in view of the growing disrespect for human law and the refusal to "render honor to whom honor is due," we need not be surprised that the recognition of the majesty, the authority, the sovereignty of the almighty Law-giver should recede more and more into the background, and the masses have less and less patience with those who insist upon them. — Arthur W. Pink

You could take winos off the sidewalk in front of the drugstore and teach them to be poets in half an hour. — Nell Zink

A fault is something very easy to find in others, but becomes invisible when you try to find it in yourself — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. — Bill Gates

Don't try so hard to be the penetrating observer. Writing is, after all, a makeshift thing. — Anonymous