Convulses Quotes & Sayings

You can continue to cry over the same pain & complain about the same situations or you can expand your mind and you can grow. Maybe im not alone when I say, sometimes we all get a little confused and feel like we owe it to the people and places to try harder when in reality, most of the time lessons become lifelong if we don't learn the art of peaceful detachment early in the game. — Nikki Rowe

There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War in Europe to the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century to the World Wars, every century has one. — George Friedman

Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them. — Ehab Atalla

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith. — John Taylor Gatto

You've read Descartes," he remarked, every syllable edged in disbelief. ""I should like to hear your opinion on Cartesian dualism, then."
Vivian thought for a long moment, inwardly relieved to discover that she understood the question. "I suppose you're referring to Mr. Descartes's theory that spirit and matter are separate entities? That we cannot rely on our senses as the basis of knowledge? I believe he is correct, and I think..." She paused and continued more slowly. "I think the truth is something you recognize with your heart, even when the evidence seems to prove otherwise. — Lisa Kleypas

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster. — Paul Di Filippo

Drink wine in new cities.
Forget that you were ever
intoxicated by the vowels
of his name. — Danabelle Gutierrez

Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not going to run for president. No way, no how. — Michael Bloomberg

I will rebuild the people's trust in government and create a stable foundation for Taiwan's future development. — Tsai Ing-wen

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time. — Sharon Olds

If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension. — LeBron James

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn ... they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything
obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. — Robert A. Heinlein

Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived. — Charles Barkley

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band. — The Edge

Our lives aren't ours, darling," she murmured. "We are only the caretakers of this magic. We don't use it to protect ourselves - we use it only to protect the Kupari. They call us queens, but what we really are is servants. — Sarah Fine