Corapi 2020 Quotes & Sayings

for every shadow there is a light casting upon it and for every light there is a shadow to be created — Thomas Conway

But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly so. Therefore, I have added to most of my pleasures the little flavour of bitterness, the flaw in their perfection, the canker in the damask, the worm at the root, the fear of loss, or of satiety, the fearful risks involved in their very existence, which tang their sweetness, and mind us of their mortality and of our own, and that nothing in this world is perfect. — Rose Macaulay

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. — Oscar Wilde

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Remember that what you have won or lost is your own doing, and spare me your regrets and recriminations. — George R R Martin

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — Benjamin Franklin

Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned ... Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder? — Caroline Norton

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

MacGyver of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time, because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation. There's something about the adventurer aspect of that show that I loved, that he went on all these great missions and saved people without having to use guns or anything like that. And I think that show might even be coming back, too. — Rhys Darby

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us. — Arthur C. Nielsen