Contenance Verre Quotes

#1. The only people who should play for England are English people

Jack Wilshere

#2. Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

John Cotton

#3. What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Tom Chatfield

#5. Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

Frederick Lenz

#6. My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.

Phil Collins

#7. The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

Gary Paulsen

#8. You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

Ira Glass

#9. On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.

Debi Mazar

#10. With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

Charlie Munger

#11. I'l erase your day

Kristen Ashley

#12. Longevity is not whether or not you break, it is how well you recover and repair when you do.

Mehmet C. Oz

#13. Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.

Cassandra Clare

#14. No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

Megan Abbott