Canonigos Quotes & Sayings

When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men, — Thomas S. Monson

"These are Thy wondrous works, Parent of good, — Vautier Golding

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett

The way we construct consciousness is to tell the story of ourselves to ourselves, the story of who we believe we are. I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the person trying to write his own narrative and society trying to write a different narrative for the person. One story tries to overwrite the other. And so to survive you have to own your story. Or . . .' Mike looked at me, '. . . you write a third story. You react to the narrative that's been forced upon you.' He paused. 'You have to find a way to disrespect the other narrative,' he said. 'If you believe it, it will crush you.' I — Jon Ronson

I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least. — Lester Holt

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things ... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand. — Sandy Skoglund

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. — Carlos Fuentes

After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms. — Holly Black

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping. — Fernando Pessoa

Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off. — Ziad K. Abdelnour