Contas Quotes

#1. The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

Bill Buford

#2. Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

Mother Teresa

#3. ... and who are you, anyway?"
"I'm Tina."
"Thank goodness!" I said so loudly she stepped back. "No silly-ass overdone names for you, m'girl."
"It's short for Christina Caresse Chavelle."
"Well, you did the best you could.

MaryJanice Davidson

#4. I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art ... that people actually paid for it.

Wade Guyton

#5. Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

Dorothy Parker

#6. I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.

Jon Foreman

#7. Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.

John Smit

#8. Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Marianne Williamson

#10. I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow ... I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Life isn't just about the duration you spend, but by the donation of impact you can pass out before you eventually pass-out

Seyi Ayoola

#12. Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Peter L. Berger

#13. Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Fulton J. Sheen

#14. When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries at that time. This is certainly a big knock under the circumstances, better than the 200s and 300s.

Kapil Dev

#15. Thank you so much." "Every time." "I like that. Every time. Instead of 'anytime.' It's pointed.

Caroline Kepnes