Congeners Quotes

#1. In all likelihood fairies of larger stature were ancient gods in a state of decay, while their diminutive congeners were the swarming spirits of primitive imagination.

Lewis Spence

#2. I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

Illeana Douglas

#3. What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

Peter Drucker

#4. An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.

John Templeton

#5. Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

Elbert Hubbard

#6. If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

John F. Kennedy

#7. I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

Heather O'Neill

#8. Don't just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen

Simon Dunn

#9. A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

Kate Chopin

#10. This form of interspecies leap is common, not rare; about 60 percent of all human infectious diseases currently known either cross routinely or have recently crossed between other animals and us.

David Quammen

#11. Nakajima's presence didn't put any pressure on me, either. Quite the opposite: there was a warmth in the core of my chest when he was around.

Banana Yoshimoto

#12. I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

John Wooden

#13. I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

Chris Matthews

#14. Maybe he thought trading his freedom for ours would be the only honest trade he'd ever make,

Chris Colfer

#15. What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cure.

Nina Post

#16. Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Naguib Mahfouz