Albores Concrete Quotes

#1. It is in the way you held my hands
that I knew could never let you go.

Timothy Joshua

#2. Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Siri Hustvedt

#3. Oh my God, I thought. I'm rooming with the Sydney Sage of re-education.

Richelle Mead

#4. If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.

Claressa Shields

#5. Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

John Updike

#6. Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Richard Flanagan

#7. Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

Donna Lynn Hope

#8. One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.

Gene Tunney

#9. They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.
"You?"
"Great."
They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

Louise Penny

#10. Generating text yourself requires more cognitive effort than does reading, and effort increases memorability,

Clive Thompson

#11. In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#12. We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Horace Walpole

#13. The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Shirley Williams