Connived Quotes

#1. The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

Derek Jarman

#2. If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

Josh McDowell

#3. The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.

Clive James

#4. I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone.

Alice Cooper

#5. This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.

Francis Schaeffer

#6. In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous.

Narendra Modi

#7. With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'

George Smoot

#8. Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion - although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul.

Gail Carriger

#9. I was, on the whole, considerably discouraged by my school days. It was not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the beginning of the race.

Winston Churchill

#10. I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

Lauren F. Winner

#11. The rod that beat you is broken but you have no reason to be glad. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon -- The Rule of Void

Ekene Onuorah

#12. If I had my way, I'd love to see 'Wolverine' in a cosmic adventure all by his lonesome.

Cullen Bunn

#13. When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

C. K. Williams

#14. Mahlia just waited. She was good at that. When you were a castoff, it didn't do any good trying to talk to people, but sometimes, if you just kind of waited them out, people would get uncomfortable and feel like they had to do something.

Paolo Bacigalupi