Konschak Oil Quotes & Sayings

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. — Socrates

Andy gave me a leatherbound Bible (which I also read, mostly to spite him) — Stephen King

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own. — James W. Sire

The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ... — John Geddes

They walked with a pedatory grace ... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance" ... — Scott Westerfeld

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep. — Saul Bellow

When you make the decision to give something to a person who has nothing, that something has just become their everything. — Mark W. Boyer

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do. — Peter Capaldi

What you had to have is usually tabulated as follows: luck; the ability to adapt, immediately and radically; a talent for inconspicuousness; solidarity with another individual or with a group; the preservation of decency ("the people who had no tenets to live by - of whatever nature - generally succumbed" no matter how ruthlessly they struggled); the constantly nurtured conviction of innocence (an essential repeatedly emphasised by Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago); immunity to despair; and, again, luck. — Martin Amis

Do you have a husband concealed about you? — Georgette Heyer

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself. — Richard Matheson

Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good. — David Brooks

Sir Leicester leans back in his chair, and breathlessly ejaculates, Good heaven! — Charles Dickens

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by ... not paying attention? — Joshua Foer

To find extraordinary things, go to the ordinary streets! — Mehmet Murat Ildan