Valenteen Cognac Quotes & Sayings

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life. — James Salter

But you can't be saying I should walk away from everything I have worked for all my life?"
"No, I am not. What I am saying is that we need to take a much closer look at what we have been calling our life."
"To what purpose?"
"To see if it is really ours. Once we know what is authentically our own, then we also know what to keep and protect and what to let go. — Guy Finley

There is a wicked and pervading arrogance loose on the earth, like a rabid beast, an overdog. Does it run, does it slouch, does its name have a number? The beast preaches contempt, for that's what arrogance says: that nothing is real but itself, and the bone and blood of another's being are insubstantial as breath. — Kelly Cherry

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust. — Lord Acton

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to. — Margaret Cho

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra. — Michael Fassbender

But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of their being? We do not know. All we do know for certain is that no such clock, no such warnings, can come out of the passing time that we are told is all we have. They belong to a larger idea of Time, like all these dreams that came true. — J.B. Priestley

It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company. — Colin Firth