Reconnus Quotes & Sayings

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be. — Robert Jordan

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. — Henry David Thoreau

My pop always said poverty fucks with you... makes you think you can do things you really can't and start selling your soul for things that are priceless. — J.J. McAvoy

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125) — Michael Shermer

When you write, everything is possible, even the very opposite of what you are. — Silvina Ocampo

The compulsion of fate is bitter. — Christoph Martin Wieland

I was not alone in any of this. I was only a little torn, but not broken. "Yeah," I said. "I'll be okay." And I was brave. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like. — Robert Webb

Girls should certainly be heard. It is their voices the world is missing. — Shelley Adina

One is not the loneliest number but zero is. — Boris Zubry

When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great." Unless it's clearly there. — Kenneth Lonergan

When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me. — Ben Lerner

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? — Peter Brook

I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory. — Stefan Zweig

You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it. — John C. Maxwell