Kounsel Quotes & Sayings

Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. - William Castle, describing leukemia in 1950 — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan. — Cory Monteith

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

He has a really consistent routine. He comes in in the morning at around 8:30. He reads five newspapers. He reads The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Omaha World Herald. Then he has a stack of reports on his desk from the companies Berkshire owns, and some trade press like American Banker or oil and gas journals, and through the rest of the day, he alternates between flipping through this stuff and then talking on the phone to people either who call him or who he calls. He never calls his managers; they can call him. He is really accessible, but he leaves them alone.
Then he has CNBC on all day long with the crawl, with the sound muted and if he sees his name cross along the bottom and they are talking about him, he will turn the sound on to find out what they are saying. That is his day. He doesn't do meetings
there are no meetings.
— Alice Schroeder

Clutter is evidence of excess. — Cristin Frank

Dear Moon, Slowly enlighten my heart with your lovely, silvery, dancing, miraculous light. — Debasish Mridha

Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate his mysteries; this is Himself. It is the universal devotion. No one can be without it, in order to be a Christian. How can a man be a Christian who does not worship the living Presence of Christ? — Frederick William Faber

There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do not care. Yet all of these are part of the parcel of land that we call human experience and spirituality. The deep lows and pinnacled heights as well as the wonderful things in what one priest called the lowlands of mundania. This book is not for you if you are looking for hatred on atheists, religionists or just looking for reasons to justify yourself. — Leviak B. Kelly

God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and gave people like Jimi Hendrix his fingers and John Lennon his brain. — John Corey Whaley

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that? — Bill Konigsberg

Apparently I'm introspective ... levelheaded ... but at the same time, absolutely insane. — Ellie Goulding

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. — Logan Pearsall Smith

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things. — Hal Sparks

The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries. — Laozi