Connidalia Quotes & Sayings

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' — Harry Browne

All language is a longing for home. — Rumi

Perhaps it wasn't all Freud after all. Perhaps a large part of it had to do with the invention of the electric light, which had killed the shadows in men's minds much more effectively than a stake through a vampire's heart - and less messily, too. — Stephen King

You create what you defend against. — Gautama Buddha

Ll the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him.. — George Orwell

This New World utopia, this promised land, was soon buried under the ashes and cinders that erupted over the Western World in the nineteenth century, thanks tot he resurrection and intensification of all the forces that had originally brought 'civilization' itself into existence. The rise of the centralized state, teh expansion of the bureaucracy and the conscript army, the regimentation of the factory system, the depredations of speculative finance, the spread of imperialism, as in the Mexican War, and the continued encroachment of slavery-all these negative movements not only sullied the New World dream but brought back on a larger scale than ever the Old World nightmares that the immigrants to America had risked their lives and forfeited their cultural treasures to escape. — Lewis Mumford

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. — Bob Woodward

When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not-knowing, not-curing, not-healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares. HENRI J. M. NOUWEN — Melanie Shankle

It's very liberating; I feel great. Long hair is so fucking foolish, I feel sorry for guys who have it," he said, expressing the total conviction one finds in those who have only recently been converted. — Hope Jahren

I grab her arms and pull her toward me. Now she has her arms wrapped around my waist and we're chest to chest. She's laughing and I almost want to laugh with her. For a second it feels real and okay. The knot in my gut loosens and I'm not scared to breathe. — Nyrae Dawn

Leadership must be established from the top down. — Sam Nunn

People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth. — J. Matthew Nespoli

He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck. — Carlos Fuentes

Taryn, are you even listening to me?
I pretended to, so let that be enough — Suzanne Wright