Conv Quotes & Sayings

Most families are destroyed from the inside, because they allow themselves to be conquered by others from the outside. — Carlton Young

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There were many peddlers like her among the prisoners: women who were only trying to make a living by selling vegetables, which was against the law. — Anonymous

When she first came here she used to think there was somebody up in those big buildings who knows what's going on here. They would never come down and talk to her. After a while she found out nobody knows what's going on. — Robert M. Pirsig

The model for South America was Broadway actress Maxine Elliot. North America, a pretty blonde, was modeled on Maud Coleman Woods of Charlottesville, Virginia. (Sadly, she would die of typhoid fever that summer, ten days before McKinley arrived in Buffalo, thereby never living to see herself on a coaster, every southern belle's dream.) — Sarah Vowell

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv — Rabindranath Tagore

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race. — Bette Midler

Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything ... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe. — W.N.P. Barbellion

All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist. — Stephen Hawking