Reconciliaos Quotes & Sayings

As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure ... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,
to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,
almost any timber will give way. — Henry David Thoreau

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does. — Susan Minot

HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]

VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself. — Anton Chekhov

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. — William Feather

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy. — William Habington

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort. — John Caudwell

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. — Jim C. Hines

I feel that my main responsibility as a teacher isn't to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions. — Max Tegmark

If there was somebody I wanted to meet, I'd like to be able to get their autograph. — Katie Price

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul? — Mary Oliver

Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears, ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity. — Mel Brooks

In another life, I could be a personal shopper. — Jane Rosenthal

There are always a dozen reasons for doing nothing," Ann liked to say
it was a favourite apologia, indeed, for many of her misdemeanours. "There is only one reason for doing something. And that's because you want to." Or have to? Ann would furiously deny it: coercion, she would say, is just another word for doing what you want; or for not doing what you are afraid of. — John Le Carre