Resettling Conquered Quotes & Sayings

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.'
Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love ... — Lorrie Moore

love was a choice that I was capable of making just as much as it was a risk I was capable of taking. — Penny Reid

It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing. — Umberto Boccioni

the sight of her lying there utterly without resistance, yet armored by the power of her own renunciation, was so intense as to bring tears to his eyes. — Han Kang

I always thought when I became an adult everything would become less confusing, but unfortunately, everything's only becoming more confusing. — Meg Cabot

Popular and good and bad is not the same thing. — Cyrus Broacha

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides. — Pliny The Elder

She was like some kind of Energizer Bunny nonstop bitch machine ... She needed three more husbands, so we could all take shifts listening to her. — Victor Gischler

Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas. — Alex Ferguson

You've really earned it, he thought. You've played a losing game and actually enjoyed the idea of losing, almost like them freaks who get their kicks when they're banged around. You've heard tell about that type, the ones who pay the girls to burn them with lit matches, or put on high heeled shoes and step on their faces. That kind of weird business. And it's always the same question. What makes them that way? But you never took the trouble to figure the answer. What the hell, it was their private worry, it didn't concern you. — David Goodis

Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with. — Franz Kafka

Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature. — Paul Kurtz

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both. If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls. — Mark Batterson

Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When you blow the horn it sounds blaring. The brakes sometimes slow the car, but not always. The blinkers work occasionally, the steering is erratic, and the speedometer is inaccurate.
You are engaged in a constant struggle to keep the car on the road, and it is difficult to concentrate on anything else. — Stanley Greenspan