Conturbatio Quotes & Sayings

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt. — Ravi Zacharias

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything. — Louis Pasteur

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead. — David Crockett

In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here. — Rumi

Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good. — Lauren Myracle

We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it 'excludes', it 'represses'... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. — Michel Foucault

O happiness! O happiness! Wilt thou perhaps sing, O my soul? Thou liest in the grass. But this is the secret, solemn hour, when no shepherd playeth his pipe.

Take care! Hot noontide sleepeth on the fields. Do not sing! Hush! The world is perfect.

Do not sing, thou prairie-bird, my soul! Do not even whisper! Lo - hush! The old noontide sleepeth, it moveth its mouth: doth it not just now drink a drop of happiness -

- An old brown drop of golden happiness, golden wine? Something whisketh over it, its happiness laugheth. Thus - laugheth a God. Hush!

"For happiness, how little sufficeth for happiness!" Thus spoke I once and thought myself wise. But it was a blasphemy: that have I now learned. Wise fools speak better.

The least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a whisk, an eye-glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Hush! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry. — Chris O'Dowd

There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool's imagination. I don't think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don't think about the future at all, it is irrelevant. — Rajneesh

they'd learn what needed to be held close in life, and what wasn't worth worrying over. — Kristin Hannah

Maia was either going to grow up to rule the world or loose a planetwide plague upon the land. Maybe both. — Patricia Briggs