Console Quotes - Page 8

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

  Will Wright

  Power, Games, Doe

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• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

  Marguerite Duras

  Destiny, Men, Funny Sarcastic

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

  Will Wright

  Games, Generations, Machines

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• Time can take nothing from the BIBLE.  It is the living monitor.  Like the sun,  it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago.  It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss

  Richard Cecil

  Loss, Men, Years

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• Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

  Pliny the Younger

  Writing, Joy, Sorrow

  Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love Life, Disappear

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• I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

  Vin Diesel

  Guilty, Used, Feels

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• It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

  Edgar Degas

  Moving, People, Tree

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• What can money do to console a man with a headache?

  George MacDonald

  Money, Men, Headache

  George MacDonald (1883). “Writings: With Illustrations on Wood and Steel]”

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• Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

  Edmund Burke

  Motivational, Running, Cheer

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.134

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• Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.

  Walpola Rahula

  Children, Ignorance, Men

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• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Irritation, Long

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• The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

  John Carmack

  Xbox, Games, Tools

  "Microsoft Unveils Games For Its New Xbox 360" by Seth Schiesel, query.nytimes.com. October 6, 2005.

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• I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

  Christian Wiman

  Art, Pain, Believe

  Interview with Caitlin Mackenzie, therumpus.net. October 7, 2014.

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• The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Food, Loss

  Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

  Thucydides

  Office, Democracy, Failing

  "History of the Peloponnesian War". Book by Thucydides, Book VIII, 8.89, 431–404 BC.

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• If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal.  He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Tired, Loss

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Air, Offensive

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Expression, Games, Play

  George Walker, Benjamin Franklin, William Stopford Kenny (1841). “The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board”, p.10

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• Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

  Qiu Miaojin

  Soul, Spirit, Artistic

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• If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Christ, Please

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1894). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pleasure, Repentance

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Luck, Firsts

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.717, e-artnow

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• Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

  Xavier de Maistre

  Reality, Men, Imagination

  Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli (1994). “Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier DeMaistre”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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