Contrino Group Quotes & Sayings

Ecclesiastes 7:20 clearly sounds the futility of legalism: There is not a righteous man on earth / who does what is right and never sins. — Beth Moore

Leaving aside the consideration that academics might always favour poetic difficulty - it makes them indispensable - — Clive James

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. — Joe Biden

Hmm, he was a god in the kitchen and a devil in the bedroom. How did I get so lucky? — Caisey Quinn

I believed that I would become a counsellor to the Thembu king, — Nelson Mandela

Rumor is not always wrong — Tacitus

Out, damned spot — William Shakespeare

In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it. — Jay Hernandez

Our return to an image-based culture means the destruction of the abstract thought made possible by a literate, print-based society. Image-based societies do not grasp or cope with ambiguity, nuance, doubt and the many layers of irrational motives and urges, some of them frightening, that make human actions complex and finally unfathomable. They eschew self-criticism for amusement. They build fantastic non-reality-based belief systems that cater to human desires and illusions rather than human reality. These illusions, whether religious or secular, offer a simple and unexamined myth that the human race is advancing morally, spiritually and materially toward paradise. This advance is proclaimed as inevitable. This faith in our advancement makes us passive and complacent. — Chris Hedges

If it's a nod from society you're looking for, run a marathon. But if it's a life-changing experience of personal strength and perseverance that you want, finish an ultra. — Vanessa Runs