Quontro Quotes & Sayings

She was thinking - for, since she had been formed by literature, she could think in no other way - that all this had been described in Dickens, Tolstoy, Hugo, Dostoevsky, and a dozen others. All that noble and terrific indignation had done nothing, achieved nothing, the shout of anger from the nineteenth century might as well have been silent - for here came the file of prisoners, handcuffed two by two, and on their faces was that same immemorial look of patient, sardonic understanding. — Doris Lessing

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair. — Charles Gounod

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know."
Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere — Dashiell Hammett

I wouldn't have waited," Galen muttered.
"Yes, but, then again, you're no gentleman, brother," Eryx laughed. — Nely Cab

The pain you feel today will be the strenght you feel tomorrow. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Miss Frizzle

"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy. — D. Blake

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body. — Hugh Dancy

When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart, I too am an elderly person, husband, or a wife. While I am talking with a person, in my heart, nothing exists except that person. — Masahisa Goi

The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious. — Joseph Prince

There is much room for humility when it comes to evangelism. We need to acknowledge that God is sovereign and can do as he wills to bring people to himself. There is no formula that dictates how God must work in evangelism. And though we may disagree with the evangelistic practices of individuals, ministries, or churches, we must also recognize that when people develop good-hearted commitments to evangelism, God can produce true fruit. I, for one, will take people practicing evangelism as best they can over those who forgo evangelism until they have the perfect practice. — J. Mack Stiles

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall. — Shia Labeouf

Our hearts parted a long time ago, and I was wrong to think they could be brought together again. — Soseki Natsume

We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked.
-Urian — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Against all odds, I feel a drop of sympathy . . . amidst a sea of hatred." "Khalid. — Renee Ahdieh