Implacability Quotes

#1. If I had rediscovered in Heaven, amplified to infinity, the monstrous alliance of fragility and implacability, of caprice and artificial necessity which had oppressed me since my birth, rather than worship Him I would have chosen damnation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. A couple of years ago I was seated in an auditorium in Detroit where Reverend Cleage was explaining to a conference of priests that what they called "black separatists" were in reality men who recognized the implacability of a white-imposed separation.

John Howard Griffin

#3. Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

Arleigh Burke

#4. Freedom may be mankind's natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.

Terry Pratchett

#5. The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden

#6. Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alejandro Amenabar

#7. What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.
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Amy Chua

#8. Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember all the times I got stung by a bee.

John Madden

#9. To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus.

Stephen King

#11. Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

Patti Smith

#12. Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

Sydney J. Harris

#13. Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Ron Wood

#14. I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

Sara Paretsky

#15. If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

Galen Rowell