The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”
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Billy Connolly

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No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY
It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...
JOHN CONNOLLY
We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere."
"Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in He...
JOHN CONNOLLY
Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
JOHN CONNOLLY
Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY
After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope...
JOHN CONNOLLY
You've just inherited rudeness. We've had to work at it.
JOHN CONNOLLY
Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY
But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY
It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...
JOHN CONNOLLY
If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...
JOHN CONNOLLY
A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer
JOHN CONNOLLY
Most criminals were dumb, and he took the view that the whole science of criminology was essentially...
JOHN CONNOLLY
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
JAMES CONNOLLY
I wanted somebody who would provide independence and a professional perspective to this organization...
ANGELA CONNOLLY
By law, we have to keep it at $68 million, and I for one won't go over the $68 million.
ANGELA CONNOLLY
We asked him to shoot us a number that it would take to stay in Polk County. This is the number we c...
ANGELA CONNOLLY
He has to come in at target. He's got to figure out how to do that.
ANGELA CONNOLLY
. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven.

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JOHN CONNOLLY
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that wil...
JOHN CONNOLLY
(To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium...
JOHN CONNOLLY
where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.
JOHN CONNOLLY
No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a di...
JOHN CONNOLLY
It’s a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, who...
JOHN CONNOLLY
The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It...
JOHN CONNOLLY
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clea...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and d...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit th...
JAMES CONNOLLY
There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?
KEVIN CONNOLLY
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of l...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the be...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I starte...
KEVIN CONNOLLY
Papa has not misled any client, manipulated any record, or covered up anything.
MICHAEL CONNOLLY
'Entourage' is almost required watching in L.A., and everyone seems to have story suggestion...
KEVIN CONNOLLY
I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.
KEVIN CONNOLLY
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a...
JOHN CONNOLLY
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
CYRIL CONNOLLY