Conversable Quotes & Sayings

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again. — James Douglas

Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited. — Ludwig Von Mises

You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils
censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic
the women in Scotland have twice
thrice their freedom, with all their virtue
and are very conversable and agreeable
their educations are more finished. — Fanny Burney

Im Not Brave..
Bravery Implies That I Had A Choice,
Im Just Me You Know? — Meredith Russo

You used Neverleak," Shelley said, eyeing my craftsmanship with a skeptical frown. "The sale's on Stay-Tite." Shelley was the store manager, and her slumped shoulders and dour expression were as much a part of her uniform as the blue polo shirts we all had to wear. — Ransom Riggs

We become so numb to what we're saying. — Macklemore

I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living
and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known. — Tana French

I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me. — Philippe Petit

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes — Murray Edelman

I've a right to think," said Alice sharply.
"Just about as much right," said the Duchess, "as pigs have to fly."
~ Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 ~ — Lewis Carroll

HERE LIES THE MYSTERY PISSER


P.I.P. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals. — Vidya Balan

Nursing homes and rest homes are all the rage round here. Most of us will be in them before very long. Do you fancy that? Are you looking forward to it? No, neither am I. But I'm doing something about that. Just whisky and cigarettes, so far, mostly. — Andrew Davies

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice. — Robin Gibb

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head. — C.S. Lewis

What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes ... — Jeremy Bentham

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance. — Vera Farmiga