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The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story")


Catherine Crowe


#creepy #silence #business

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.


Katharine Fullerton Gerould


#burden #chiefly #conventional #credited #falls

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#job #painful #protect #serves #thinking

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.


Theodore C. Sorensen


#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.


Agha Hasan Abedi


#definition #developing #done #getting #management

He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection.


Ayn Rand


#convention #society #life

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.


Gustave Flaubert


#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father Ramon coughed. 'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully.


Jacqueline Carey


#convent #dystopian #orphanage #toast #men

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.


John Barrymore


#barrymore #conventional #dear #die #fellow

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.


Maria Bartiromo


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