Conation Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more.
It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard. — Elizabeth Berg

Pemphredo had been about to crawl off, but at that she came back and settled down, brushing off her filthy shorts. Deino crossed her legs. Enyo stopped picking at her fingernails with a knife and put it politely away. I kind of felt like I should be serving tea. — Karen Chance

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world. — John Wayne

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. — Robin G. Collingwood

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. — Aristotle.

What a beautiful disaster. — Tahereh Mafi

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd. — Murray Rothbard

The summer is cruel to its leaves, the fall to its colors, the winter to us. — Herta Muller

I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you. — Scoot McNairy

Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage. — Wilferd Peterson

The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathetical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic feature of human discourse: when considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. — Sam Harris