Pierderea Constientei Quotes & Sayings

Locker rooms, in Schwartz's experience, were always underground, like bunkers and bomb shelters. This was less a structural necessity than a symbolic one. The locker room protected you when you were most vulnerable: just before a game, and just after (And halfway through, if the game was football) Before the game, you took off the uniform you wore to face the world and you put on the one you wore to face your opponent. In between you were naked in every way. After the game ended, you couldn't carry your game-time emotions out into the world - you'd be put in an asylum if you did - so you went underground and purged them. You yelled and threw things and pounded on your locker, in anguish or joy. You hugged your teammate, or bitched him out, or punched him in the face. Whatever happened, the locker room remained a haven. — Chad Harbach

It was music of a kind, at the same time soothing and invigorating, such a human place and time, when no one texted at the table or had an Internet to surf while they ate or carried a cell phone the ring of which could never be ignored. — Dean Koontz

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. — Charles E. Wilson

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been. — Margaret Atwood

Most of my girlfriends are sent by the Devil and seem genuinely bemused when I do not succumb to their powers. — Robert Black

I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement. — Martin McGuinness

Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said.
Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more.
They found out the following evening. — John Flanagan

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. — Conrad Veidt

Any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure. — Corinne Maier

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry. — Carl Sagan

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man. — Arnold Rothstein

Yet I was myself in no way prepared to accept this news as final: there was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible. That was why I needed to be alone. After — Joan Didion