Mottee And Zconia Quotes & Sayings

And I saw the eyes of the gazelle again in France [during WWI], and it struck me that perhaps a heartsick God had looked down and taken up a soul, leaving only the shell of a man." [of those who developed PTSD and/or "war neuroses"] ... [In becoming a psychiatrist] I was really trying to create the conditions whereby a soul might be persuaded to join a man's body once a again, thus making him whole. — Jacqueline Winspear

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them. — Anthony Quinn

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. — Rob Sheffield

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really. — Jared Harris

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing. — Walter Lord

And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit. — William Faulkner

You have to be free to fail in this world. — J.K. Rowling

Tarkin smiled. Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities. — James Luceno

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check! — Aron Nimzowitsch

One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit ... Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless. — Jonathan Franzen

Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets — Hal David

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue. — Joy Williams

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish. — Marian Anderson