Covicou Quotes & Sayings

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly. — Frederick Lenz

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey. — Robin Hobb

Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up ... — Barack Obama

I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest. — Sonia Sotomayor

You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married. — Jess Walter

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important. — Charlie Fletcher

Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.


He fought his doubts and gather'd strength,
He would not make his judgment blind,
He faced the spectres of the mind
And laid them: thus he came at length


To find a stronger faith his own;
And Power was with him in the night,
Which makes the darkness and the light,
And dwells not in the light alone, — Alfred Tennyson

I looked at the back of Jessica's silky bent head and thought of those old stories where one twin is hurt and the other, miles away, feels the pain. I wondered if there had been a moment, during that giggly girls' night at Auntie Vera's, when she had made some small, unnoticed sound; if all the answers we wanted were locked away behind the strange dark gateways of her mind. — Tana French

You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better. — Frederick Lenz

It is my belief that one of the most exciting things about the World Wide Web is that they allow minds, as Spock might say, to meld. The transfer of consciousness through a variety of mediums is nothing new. — Frederick Lenz

Imagination is the conception, but vision is the perceptual realization. — Debasish Mridha

Do you know hot to drive?" he asked.
"Sure," she said. "This one is the gas. — Sarah Beth Durst

The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of telling whether the issue of their work would prove them to be fiends, or dreamers, or angels. — Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh

Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. — Matthew McConaughey

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves. — Jack Nicholson