quotes about Monopolizing

last updated: November 28, 2023

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
-- Eric Rohmer

Source : Éric Rohmer (1980). “Six moral tales”, Viking Books

#Thinking Quotes #Painful Quotes #Monopolizing Quotes

“A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.”
“I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future.”
“There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.”

Source : "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.
“A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.”

Source : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
“The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.”
“According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.”
“What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.”
“I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat.”

Source : "Robert Iler". www.mirror.co.uk. August 6, 2005.
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.”
“I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.”