Coniston Quotes & Sayings

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it. — Charles De Lint

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home. — Nhat Hanh

My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European. — Tom Kettle

Imagine early hominid life as a tense balance of power between the alpha (and an ally or two) and the larger set of males who are shut out of power. Then arm everyone with spears. The balance of power is likely to shift when physical strength no longer decides the outcome of every fight. That's essentially what happened, Boehm suggests, as our ancestors developed better weapons for hunting and butchering beginning around five hundred thousand years ago, when the archaeological record begins to show a flowering of tool and weapon types.30 Once early humans had developed spears, anyone could kill a bullying alpha male. And if you add the ability to communicate with language, and note that every human society uses language to gossip about moral violations,31 then it becomes easy to see how early humans developed the ability to unite in order to shame, ostracize, or kill anyone whose behavior threatened or simply annoyed the rest of the group. — Jonathan Haidt

The shadow proves the sunshine. — Switchfoot

We sit cuddled together in the last warmth of summer, dreaming of narwhals, as mermaids sing far out at sea. — Kathleen Valentine

We regret because we fail to listen to an inner voice that says "I Can" and we watch as that pledge is hushed by our doubts and fears. We regret because we listened to someone else's voice rather than our own or because we knew what was right and didn't do it. Imagine a life where we trusted ourselves more, believed what others said less and committed to do what was noble. There would be no regret in that. — Jason Versey

The mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy. — George Eliot

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time. — Questlove

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. — William Shakespeare

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance. — John Carpenter

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. — Alice Hoffman

There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong. — Al Ritter

With all due respect." Victoria panted against the growing sexual hunger battling her temper for dominance. "Eat shit and die, sir. — Morgan Hawke

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg