Contested Convention Quotes & Sayings

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly. — Lauren Groff

Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you're young, and you're romantically in love with somebody, and often if you've just met somebody, its crazy! It's completely overwhelming. You can't think of anything else. You just want to climb inside the other person and live under their pancreas. And then it mellows, somewhat ... to the point where you can barely look at them ... without feeling a mild distaste — Dylan Moran

When people say, "Don't just sit there, do something," they're urging you to act. But if the quality of your being is poor - if you don't have enough peace, understanding, and equanimity, if you still have a lot of anger and worries - then your actions will also be poor. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown. — Aldo Leopold

I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them. — Pete Rose

If you really want more, then cross the door and get to the shore.-RVM — R.v.m.

Yes, the rich. And that's their misfortune. You see, if you keep adding copper bit by bit to a child's food, you prevent the growth of its bones, and he'll be a dwarf; and if from his youth up you poison a man with gold, you deaden his soul. Once, — Maxim Gorky

He has to play hard to get hard, I know that. I'm okay with that. More than okay. — Tiffany Reisz

Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance. — Yoweri Museveni