Conchitas Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn. — Saint Augustine

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe. — Sydney Smith

I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here! — William S. Burroughs

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step. — Sri Aurobindo

The infallible man does not exist. — Marcus Aurelius

Anything you raise by the way of spirits you have to put back yourself. — Shirley Jackson

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. — Asa Gray

Some people have no talent but we can't all be that lucky. — Marty Rubin

When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I could reform the New York City school system. After two or three years, four years, I became an advocate of choice, of scholarships, and vouchers, and parental choice, because I thought that was the only way to really change the school system. — Rudy Giuliani

I'll see you soon," he whispered, the lump in his throat rising again to jar the release of his sigh. He swallowed once more and said, "But it won't be soon enough. — Laury Falter

If we wished to gain contentment, we might try such rules as these:
1. Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even of the weather.
2. Never picture thyself to thyself under any circumstances in which thou art not.
3. Never compare thine own lot with that of another.
4. Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been, or were, otherwise than it was, or is. God Almighty loves thee better and more wisely than thou dost thyself.
5. Never dwell on the morrow. Remember that it is God's, not thine. The heaviest part of sorrow often is to look forward to it. "The Lord will provide. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism — Jonah Goldberg

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me? — Cindy Sheehan

Negative thoughts are tenants that charge the landlord rent. — Matshona Dhliwayo