Konteks Quotes & Sayings

She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and she took pleasure in contacts with minds much less brilliant than her own. In short, she had a taste for people, all sorts of people - and not the same people the whole time. — Agatha Christie

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. — Dan Brown

The technique is marvelously described in the classic management text The One Minute Manager. — Ben Horowitz

Dangerously close to having to work for a living. — Rosen Topuzov

Nothing . . . no woman . . . no piece of ass or fake boob thrust in my face will ever turn my eye away from you. Nothing and no one will ever come close to making me feel the way I do just when I'm holding your hand, or listening to you breathe at night. Nothing compares. — Anonymous

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that. — Rob Lowe

Write her a letter, send her a flower, love only gets old if you let it. — William Chapman

My husband has never been one to catch the subtleties of a situation. He called every Valentine's Day to ask if I wanted him to stop on the way home to get a card. Every year I said no, don't bother, and he'd say something like, "Okay, but I want to go on record I asked, so you can't say I'm not romantic." I never did point out that any chance the gesture had of being romantic was lost when he asked whether he had to do it. — Abby Fabiaschi

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro? — Sarah Dessen

What can we do better than any other company in the world, that fits our economic denominator and that we have passion for? — James C. Collins

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. — Virginia Woolf

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing. — Eddie Rickenbacker