Contraataco Quotes & Sayings

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. — Kurt Vonnegut

No buts, no excuses. Live life to your expectations, not anyone else's. — Komal Kant

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror. — Clive Barker

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. — Thomas Aquinas

Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party. — Cassandra Clare

Yet he never gave up. Bitterness never staked its claim. Anger never metastasized into hatred. His heart never hardened; his resolve never vanished. He not only survived; he thrived. — Max Lucado

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control. — Robyn

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

Yet in making our choices we must sometimes start with a vision, however inchoate, of what it is for a human life to go well. That was one of Aristotle's central insights. It is my argument that we should be free to avail ourselves of the resources of many disciplines to define that vision; and that in bringing them together we are being faithful to a long tradition. In the humanities,
I think, we are always engaged in illuminating the present by drawing on the past; it is the only way to make a future worth hoping for. — Kwame Anthony Appiah

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me. — Cathy Freeman

I don't know, Cole. Maybe I made the two of you up," Charlie said, although his tenor lacked conviction. "I mean what the hell is this anyway? We meet up in our dreams. How is that even possible? And you and I, Cole, we have been seriously fucked up for years over Maddie. One meaningless relationship after another. No one will ever measure up to that beautiful, amazing girl, but I don't want a fucking dream anymore. I'm outta here! — Elena Kincaid

Let's just say, there's not much of a moon out tonight," Nose continued anyway, "but if Yale joined us, there would be. — Ripley Patton

Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, & objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh & bloodstream. I am no beauty, no mirror is necessary to assure me of this absolute fact. Nevertheless I have a death grip on this haggard frame as if it were the limpid body of Venus herself. — Leonora Carrington

Lights are on, and I'm not in pain, and never before have I been so keenly aware that this is all anyone really needs. — Claudia Gray