Conversers Quotes

#1. English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

Elspeth Huxley

#2. The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

Charlie Pierce

#3. Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

Orson Welles

#4. I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

Anthony Holden

#5. Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey's greatness.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Strange evolution, that people have come to believe
that we are its greatest achievement
when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves

Dave Matthews Band

#7. I was here.
I lived.
I mattered.
This is a good way to go.

Elizabeth Norris

#8. I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

Kristin Cashore

#10. That little, twitching, momentary clasp of acknowledgment that she gave him in her satisfaction, roused his pride unconquerable. They loved each other, and all was whole. She loved him, he had taken her, she was given to him. It was right. He was given to her, and they were one, complete.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. What I am to be, I am becoming.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Rem Koolhaas

#13. Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Franklin D. Roosevelt