Hockstein Cornell Quotes & Sayings

Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history. — John Le Carre

Let your throat-song
be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length
suppliant, at the door. — Rumi

Now I am in to fat chains, sex and techs, fly new chicks, new kicks,
I love you like a fat kid love cake. — Curtis Jackson

But the truth of the matter - as I've come to understand it - is that people will ignore every warning sign when blinded by their thirst for something. It's better to not be thirsty. — Tarryn Fisher

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. — Santosh Kalwar

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore. — Dom Irrera

But Nicholas had no room for practicality when there was fun to be had. There was no one as capable of taking a seemingly innocuous situation and turning it into a raving adventure.
Jane. What a boring, and obviously fake, name. This oughta be fun. — Sarah M. Cradit

Hello," Magnus said to the monkey. The monkey did not reply. "I shall call you Ragnor. — Cassandra Clare

Philosophy is the invention of the rich. — Vladimir Nabokov

It occurred to me one evening, as I sat by myself in Al's patio, that a man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. I'd been doing it for ten years and I had a feeling that my reserve was running low. — Hunter S. Thompson

That is the nature of being well educated. It is to accept the framework of power and not question it. — Noam Chomsky

There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which is tighter than the prison of hawa (desire) and there is no bond/fetter more strong than the bond of desire. How, then, will a heart which is captivated, imprisoned and fettered travel unto Allah and the Home of the Hereafter? — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts. — Warren Ellis