Kontomaris Quotes & Sayings

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'. — Stephen Frears

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes - and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents. — Tony Abbott

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. — Gerald R. Ford

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People live their lives thinking that they are forgotten, and that is why we do the most outrageous things, so as not to go unnoticed — Rawi Hage

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer. — Jack White

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard. — Patricia Riggen

Here, eat this. The chicken gives it protein and I got them to hold the bacon bits.
We'd watched Charlotte's Web on cable last week, so I knew it'd be at least a month before she would eat pork again. — Kathleen Peacock

When it rains," her father said "it pours. — Jodi Picoult

Your strength is your ticket to persistence.
Your mind is your ticket to brilliance.
Your heart is your ticket to excellence.
Your soul is your ticket to transcendence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every turn of her lips, her eyes, her hand as she said it! There was entreaty for forgiveness, and trust in him and tenderness--soft, timid tenderness--and promise and hope and love for him, which he could not but believe in and which choked him with happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe. — Rhonda Byrne

God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just. — Aiden Wilson Tozer