Console Quotes - Page 4

• Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wisdom, People, Ambitious

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Crabbed Age and Youth'.

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• Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in the future, we'll see. Customers love games. I'm not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.

  Tim Cook

  Player, Playing Games, Apples

  "Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Hot Seat at D". Interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, allthingsd.com. May 29, 2012.

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• You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

  Andre Gide

  People, Answers, Insult

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• Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

  Jose Marti

  Book, Calm

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• The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

  Suzanne Collins

  Positive, Death, Strong

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.748, Scholastic Inc.

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• It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Beautiful, Imagination, Firsts

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• A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

  Hosea Ballou

  Wise, Joy, Affliction

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• Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Departure, Doe, Illusion

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.47

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• See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Loss, Differences, People

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• She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Girl, Book, Care

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

  Guillaume Musso

  Hurt, Real, World

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• As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

  Goldwin Smith

  London, Poetic, Deeper

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.

  Susan Vreeland

  Spiritual, Loving Life, Debt

  Susan Vreeland (2011). “Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel”, p.89, Random House

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• Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, People, Giving

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• What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles.

  John Romero

  Tablets, Ends, Posts

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• We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Reality, Dying

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• I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.

  Linus Pauling

  Smart, Theoretical Physics, People

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• Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Christian, Men

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• Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

  John Ortberg

  Hurt, People, Perfect

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• While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Sleep, Waiting

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• One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Stupid, Presidential

  Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War, delivered on 13 April 2004 from the East Room of the White House

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• I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

  Josie Maran

  Dating, More Time, Situation

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• The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Perception, World, Clear

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for thousands of these unmanned aircraft in use years from now, the standards for pilot training need to be set high to ensure that those on the ground and other users of the airspace are not put in jeopardy.

  Mark Rosenker

  Years, Training, Needs

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• The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows how to work and to act even with inadequate instruments comforts me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Humble, Mean

  Pope Benedict XVI's First Greeting as Pope, w2.vatican.va. April 19, 2005.

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