Conticinio Quotes & Sayings

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any. — Nikolai Gogol

The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly. — Michel De Montaigne

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — James C. Maxwell

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent. — Grace Jones

If you can think psychographically and not demographically, you can really target a lot more audiences. — Tyra Banks

The first stage of the economy's domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having - human fulfillment was no longer equated with what one was, but with what one possessed. The present stage, in which social life has become completely dominated by the accumulated productions of the economy, is bringing about a general shift from having to appearing - all "having" must now derive its immediate prestige and its ultimate purpose from appearances. At the same time all individual reality has become social, in the sense that it is shaped by social forces and is directly dependent on them. Individual reality is allowed to appear only if it is not actually real. — Guy Debord

No one in a productive society wants you to know there ways of looking at the world other than their ways, and among the effects drugs may have is that of switching a mind from the normal track. Reading the works of certain writers has a corresponding effect. When receptive individuals explore the writings of someone such as Lovecraft, they are majestically solaced to find articulations of existence countering those to which the heads around them have become habituated. — Thomas Ligotti

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him. — Sol Luckman

A beautiful heart finds beauty in everything. — Debasish Mridha

The most difficult part of our stories is often what we bring to them - what we make up about who we are and how we are perceived by others. Yes, maybe we lost our job or screwed up a project, but what makes that story so painful is what we tell ourselves about our own self-worth and value. — Brene Brown

Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it. — Ogden Nash

There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand. — Madeline Miller

Life will throw a lot at you, so you can count on learning something new every day. I have learned to open my heart and let life teach me whatever it has to offer. Every day is a gift wrapped in the lessons of tomorrow. — Amy Lynn Steele

If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising. — Laurell K. Hamilton