Top 100 Conn Quotes
#1. Social movement in this country has come when people get together,' said Carol Sutton of Norwalk, Conn., the president of a teachers union. It begins in the streets.' Climate marches
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#2. And while they were in the same place, there came a great mist about them and a darkness, so that they could not know what way they were going, and they heard the noise of a rider coming towards them. 'It would be a great grief to us,' said Conn, 'to be brought away into a strange country.
Lady Augusta Gregory
#3. The guy snarled out a string of profanity describing his night with Conn's mother.
"Sounds about right," Conn said, but Matt didn't miss the glint in Conn's eye. "She's been dead for twenty years, but dead's probably the only way you get laid.
Anne Calhoun
#4. How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?
Radhanath Swami
#5. I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.
Ted Cruz
#6. Conn was a wickedly passionate, fiercely dominant man who loved her too much to ever really hurt her.
Joely Sue Burkhart
#7. Aye, it's the heart of the craft, the love and sweat that you put into it. If you think about the old tales, the magic comes from inside the person who creates it. - Conn
N.W. Moors
#8. My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
Brian Dennehy
#9. Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions,
Diane Ackerman
#10. Young Mr. Conn Maxwell, who has just returned from Terra, needs no introduction to any of you," he began. Then, having established that, he took the next ten minutes to introduce Conn.
H. Beam Piper
#11. Harvie Conn, who related this story in one of his books, added that gospel preaching that targets some sins but not the sins of oppression cannot possibly work among the overwhelming majority of people in the world, poor peasants and workers.
Timothy Keller
#12. He trained every day with Eeluk and his bondsmen, and he knew that movement was the key to killing with swords. Any man could heave a blade around his head, but footwork separated a man from a master.
Conn Iggulden
#13. In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.
Conn Iggulden
#14. Be careful in your life, Tolui. I want you fit and strong for when I come for you.
Conn Iggulden
#15. For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.
Conn Iggulden
#16. There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.
Conn Iggulden
#17. A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every time, until you were alone and gasping for breath.
Conn Iggulden
#18. I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.
Didi Conn
#19. I am the land, the bones of the hills," he said fiercely, "I am the winter. When I am dead, I will come for you all in the coldest nights.
Conn Iggulden
#20. It's always overwhelming when you get a nice response to something, because you really invest in these projects, and you can't help but really care what other people think.
Shelley Conn
#22. He would send out the tumans to dominate the Sung for all time. He clenched his fist as he stood in the silence. They had almost fallen to a Mongol general. They would fall to the great khan.
Conn Iggulden
#23. We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.
Conn Smythe
#24. There was no justice in the world and evil men prospered. Kachiun struggled not to despair as he wrapped his deel around him, but there were times when he hated as ferociously as Temujin did. There should be justice. There should be revenge.
Conn Iggulden
#25. It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
Conn Iggulden
#26. He raised his head and summoned his endurance to take him farther. His body was finished, but he remembered Yesugei telling him a man's will could carry him long after the weak flesh had given up.
Conn Iggulden
#27. Genghis had once told him he should never give an order they would not obey. He should never let them see the limits of his authority. The
Conn Iggulden
#29. The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.
Conn Iggulden
#30. He was the khan of Wolves and he feared no man. They would pay dearly for his skin.
Conn Iggulden
#31. I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Claudy Conn
#32. Temujin snorted. Never lose faith in me, little brother. My word is iron and I will always come home.
Conn Iggulden
#33. I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.
Didi Conn
#34. I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.
Shelley Conn
#35. My son's name is Temujin," he said. "He will be iron.
Conn Iggulden
#36. Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.
Conn Iggulden
#37. Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory.
Conn Iggulden
#39. A strong man could bend the sky to suit him, but only for himself, Temujin knew.
Conn Iggulden
#40. I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son.
Didi Conn
#41. They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan's family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.
Conn Iggulden
#42. If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn't matter what other people thought of him - even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.
Conn Iggulden
#43. Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry.
Conn Iggulden
#44. I came to these lands because when a man threatens me and I look away, he has taken something important from me. If I fight and die, all he can take is my life. My courage, my dignity remain. Shall I do less for the nation I have made? Shall I allow them less honor than I claim for myself?
Conn Iggulden
#45. I think I would struggle with any job if it was purely about effects. Even as a viewer, those aren't the kind of things that interest me.
Shelley Conn
#46. Each of us must use the gifts that we have, in the time that we have, in the place that we are. You taught me that. No more is required of us. And no less.
Virginia Kantra
#47. They were few, but they were hardened in fire. They had been cast out and many would hunger as he did: for a tribe, and for a chance to strike back at a world that had abandoned them.
"It is begun here," Temujin whispered. "I have had enough of hiding. Let them hide from me.
Conn Iggulden
#48. There are no rules in life. Whether it is written down, or spoken by shamans, nothing binds a man beyond himself. Nothing, save the chains he accepts for himself. Laws and traditions mean nothing, if you have the strength.
Conn Iggulden
#49. Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.
Conn Iggulden
#50. Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.
Conn Iggulden
#51. After tonight, we will be with the spirits and see the hills of home," he called to them. "The khan will hear. He will sweep this land clean.
Conn Iggulden
#52. He who controls the heartland controls the world.
Conn Iggulden
#53. A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done - trying to even the scales before they cross the river.
Conn Iggulden
#54. The suffering of my enemies will be a feast to the spirits. When I am old, I will remember the tears they have shed and it will ease my bones.
Conn Iggulden
#55. A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
Conn Iggulden
#56. I have called those who had no tribe," he went on, "but still had honor and heeded the call of blood to blood. They rode us in trust. And I say to you all, there are no tribes under the sky father. There is only one Mongol nation and it begins this night, in this place.
Conn Iggulden
#57. If my brother was made to kneel ... you will never walk again.
Conn Iggulden
#58. You will revenge my father's death and we will be one tribe across the face of the plains, one people. As it should always have been. Let the Tartars fear us then. Let the Chin fear us.
Conn Iggulden
#59. I will be khan of them all. We are one people and one man can lead them. How else can we take the cities of the Chin?
Conn Iggulden
#60. We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.
Conn Iggulden
#61. Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.
Conn Smythe
#62. If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life.
Audrey Conn
#63. They have kept us apart for a thousand generations, Kachiun. They have ridden us until we were nothing more than savage dogs. That is the past. I have brought us together and they will be trembling. I'll give them cause.
Conn Iggulden
#64. All men die," Jelme went on, ignoring the outburst. "It could be tonight, next year, or in forty years, when you are toothless and weak. All you can do is choose how you stand when it comes.
Conn Iggulden
#65. I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.
Conn Iggulden
#66. When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've never been so exhausted doing a job as that one.
Shelley Conn
#67. He chuckled to himself as he walked. A warm woman and a battle to come. To be alive on such a night was a wondrous thing.
Conn Iggulden
#68. Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words."
"It makes them real, lord. It makes them last.
Conn Iggulden
#69. My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my final day of drama school, so it was a nice bridge into the professional world.
Shelley Conn
#70. David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!
Didi Conn
#71. If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.
Conn Smythe
#72. I say you are tribeless wanderers, without marks of rank or blood,' Khasar said. 'Don't leave your posts while I am gone. I am going to ride into the city over your bodies.
Conn Iggulden
#73. The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
Conn Iggulden
#74. The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.
Conn Iggulden
#75. There was no justice in the world - unless he made it for himself. Unless he cut twice as deep as he had been cut and gave back blow for blow. He had the right.
Conn Iggulden
#76. History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
Conn Iggulden
#77. There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.
Conn Iggulden
#78. You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.
Conn Iggulden
#79. He did not fear such enemies, nor a dozen armies like them. He was khan of the sea of grass and they were just city men, soft and fat for all their bluster and sharp swords. He would cut them down.
Conn Iggulden
#81. There is no escape from me, not even in death.
Conn Iggulden
#82. My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.
Didi Conn
#83. I love working in the theater.
Didi Conn
#84. There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.
Conn Iggulden
#85. The point of war is to win, Kachiun. It does not matter how we do it, or how long it takes.
Conn Iggulden
#86. What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?
Billy Conn
#87. We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Yes, tell them that. Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride.
Conn Iggulden
#88. Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?" she asked, tears shining in her eyes.
"Power over you, little one," he said, smiling. "What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
Conn Iggulden
#89. Isn't that ... isn't that what friends do? They change our perspective on the world. Part of why we care about them is because we love that feeling. The feeling of being changed.
Marie Rutkoski
#90. I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.
Didi Conn
#91. His generals were ready; his sons were. It remained to be seen whether the Arab nations were ready to meet them in war. In their arrogance, they had invited annihilation.
Conn Iggulden
#92. Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes?" "That's
Phoebe Conn
#93. This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
Conn Iggulden
#94. The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime
Conn Iggulden
#96. His lips nuzzled her ear. "Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die," he whispered.
Teresa Medeiros
#97. Your life is just a bird's flight through a lit room. You pass from infinite darkness into endless night, with only a short time in between.
Conn Iggulden
#98. Your people will be torn from the land for this, Tartar. Your gers will burn and your herds will be scattered.
Conn Iggulden
#99. If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That's the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
Conn Iggulden
#100. Get up," she said. "Get up, my lord. If you do not have long, there is still much to do. You must not waste another day, another morning! Take hold of your life with both hands and crush it to you, my lord. You will not have another in this world.
Conn Iggulden
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