Conscia Quotes & Sayings

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid

I don't understand," Belle cried. "I gave you gold. You only gave me grief. — William H. Hooks

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done. — Elisabeth Elliot

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent. — Nancy Kress

If she is to love life and freedom and be brave then she must learn to let go. To see beauty without clinging to it, to feel pain without holding it hostage, and to feel love without worry of losing it. — G.G. Renee Hill

He was making up a story, and she was buying into his bullshit. That was a recipe for disaster — Miranda Liasson

According to that book, only one Marx contributed an unforgotten pun to the Round Tablers' vaunted word games. It wasn't Groucho, who must have been furious. Nor was it Harpo, who for all we know sat at the table naked. Nor was it Chico, who had more dangerous games elsewhere. It was Gummo. Evidently Gummo had a seat at that table at least once, and he made it count. Everybody knows that Dorothy Parker, challenged to make a sentence with the word horticulture, quipped as follows: "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." But who knew that Gummo, taking on euphoria, came up with this: LEFT TO RIGHT: Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Gummo, 1957. "Go outside and play," Minnie told the brothers. "Which ones?" they asked. And she said: "Euphoria."* — Roy Blount Jr.

I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision. — Gautama Buddha

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire. — Omar Khayyam

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

He tasted Truth, a truth that he could not put into words. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. — Laurence Housman

Brilliance is encouraged but optional. Competence, however, is mandatory. — Steve Stockman

I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less. — Ryan Gosling

Drop the bat, mister, or I'll fill you so full of lead the undertaker will charge double to bury you! — Karen Witemeyer

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. — Susan L. Taylor