Convergences Book Quotes & Sayings

Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money. — Elsa Bakalar

Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating or killing other options (the root of the word decide means "slay," as in homicide or suicide). — Irvin D. Yalom

Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind. — Treat Williams

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. — Jimmy Breslin

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat. — Geraldine Brooks

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament. — Alva Myrdal

Why sacrifice some for the benefit of others? It's generally the best and the bravest who choose to lay down their lives for the sake of those who hide in their holes. So why favor the sacrifice of the righteous in order to permit the less righteous to survive them? Don't you think that's a way of weakening the human species? What's going to be left of it in a few generations if it's always the best who are called upon to exit the scene so that the cowards, the counterfeits, the charlatans, and the pricks can continue to proliferate like rats? — Yasmina Khadra

How will the ships navigate
without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were
dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,
was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate,
unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did. — Jeet Thayil

Max: What's a period? George: It's a bullet we dodge, go get ready. — George Lopez

I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time. — Blair Redford

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it. — Vincent Gallo

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe