Conn Iggulden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
-
I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
-
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
-
I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
-
Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.
-
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
-
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
-
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.
-
The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.
-
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
-
Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.
-
We're dealing with 15 regulatory agencies as it is, so anything that makes it more stringent or tougher to mine is going to be bad news for the coal industry.
-
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
-
Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
-
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
-
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
-
I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.
-
It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
-
This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
-
At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.
-
The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.
-
An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be wrong.
-
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-
...holding to rage is like holding a piece of glowing coal. It burns only him.
