Curio Quotes

#1. Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.

George Orwell

#2. 'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

R.D. Blackmore

#3. Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

Morley Safer

#4. Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of 'all power to the soviets' were delegated by a soviet opponent to defend the Soviet currently arguing furiously against taking the power they wanted it to take. Those

China Mieville

#5. I never had any idea that I would have a career quite honestly. You never really have any idea what is going to happen. You have an idea of what you would like to happen.

Colin Hanks

#6. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass I was conscious of no repugnance,rather a leap of welcome. This too, was myself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn't know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn't see?

Matt Haig

#9. God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.

C.J. Langenhoven

#10. Book. Candle. Nico.

Lili St. Crow

#11. Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.
(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character. ========== Naked Empire (Goodkind, Terry)

Anonymous

#13. Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.

Sam Stevens