Coquilhatville Quotes

#1. But don't you want lots of money?"
"Beene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. "Conform or get lost." Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure - especially during the years of adolescence - is an almost irresistible force.

Billy Graham

#3. Self-change can only come after self-understanding.

Rob R. Morris

#4. I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair
But mocks the steady running of the hour
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here

Wilfred Owen

#5. I invent her, then, as a woman emerging from the sea.
A tall man meets here on the black sand.
You've come back, he says.
Can barely see her in the sea-light.
They make love there, and become horses.
As night grows black they become weeds

Maggie Nelson

#6. It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

Sam Altman

#7. I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

Damon Galgut

#8. What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.

Gordon Osmond

#9. Why do I feel like this is our destiny. There must be a reason why we have become our characters.

David Kuklis