Vigolo Mortenson Quotes

#1. I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. One cannot restore anything from the ashes without building a solid foundation.

Saveros Pou

#3. Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

Robert E.Lee

#4. I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

Wallace Shawn

#5. My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations

Philippe Starck

#6. It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

Tom Perrotta

#7. The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

Lord Chesterfield

#8. You know what you are, Mr. Vail?"
"In a hurry?" he answered.
"A coward.

Devon Monk

#9. Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries

George Orwell

#10. You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

Mike Quade

#11. Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

Dogen

#12. Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

Matthew Arnold

#13. It may seem hard to believe, but it's catastrophe that offers the most promise for an even richer life. This is the gateway to the good stuff. In other words, you never truly know which way the wind is blowing until the shit hits the fan.

Michael J. Fox

#14. General, may I take a nap? General, I need a papaya! General, my claws are tired! General, look, a butterfly! SOMEBODY IS GETTING STABBED IN THE FACE IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP.

Tui T. Sutherland