Konys Richard Quotes & Sayings

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front. — John Irving

What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting ... The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements ... Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration. — Carl Von Clausewitz

I would consider all women as my mother but not all girls as my sisters. — M.F. Moonzajer

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore. — David Lagercrantz

An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home. — Raymond S. Moore

My lovers suffocate me! Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin, Jostling me through streets and public halls ... coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river ... swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush, Or while I swim in the bath ... or drink from the pump on the corner ... or the curtain is down at the opera ... or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car; Lighting on every moment of my life, Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses, Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine — Walt Whitman

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you. — Lucinda Roy

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. — C.S. Lewis

Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff. — J.R. Partington