Quotes of: Consolations Keyword

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Karl Kraus

God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Walter Lippmann

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Chuck Palahniuk

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

C. Terry Warner

M.Drain, professeur: I may be reactionary, but this is absolutely astounding - the legal wife consoling the mistress! No, no, and no!

Diabolique

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

Will Wright

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

Amy Hempel

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Paul Cezanne

Lie to me. Just to console my soul.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Richard Dawkins

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

Emmett Shear

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Carl Sandburg

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Jan Karon

Wish and Wisdom are pals. Wisdom consoles at the fall of Wish and Wish cheers up when Wisdom is at wrong foot!

Abhijit Kar Gupta

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

Wilfrid Sheed

...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days like some maniac of living, but to give oneself up, be seized by the days, the months and years, be taken up in the...

Bed

A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that col...

Neuromancer