Contenance Quotes

#1. And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?

James Fenimore Cooper

#2. Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

Hillary Clinton

#3. I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

Hilary Mantel

#4. We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#5. for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, "grammar." And

Robert Lane Greene

#6. Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.

Stephen Harper

#7. I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

James Stockdale

#8. People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

Adrian Edmondson

#9. Never love something so much it can be used to control you.

Patrick Ness

#10. How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

Nelson DeMille

#11. The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

Fridtjof Nansen

#12. Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

#13. Labor is life; thought is light.

Victor Hugo

#14. Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)

K.K. Allen

#15. The play will begin at six sharp. Parents and family, I hope you'll stay for the PTA meeting that will follow." A few parents coughed in response. George knew that coughing was the adult equivalent of groaning.

Alex Gino

#16. What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Emir Kusturica