Cotton Head Road Quotes & Sayings

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct. — Daniel Kahneman

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me. — Lord Byron

Some of our problems may be frustrating, but when looked at closely, we realize how lucky we are to have such problems. — Charles F. Glassman

I passed the friendship centre and nodded to an old couple on the porch. Kookum smiled back and nodded, a cotton kerchief on her head. Moshum's eyes squinted, too, but never looked straight at me, just glanced my presence once, and that was enough. Old school. I knew that when they stood up to hobble home, he would lead a few feet ahead, and she would follow. They grew up in the bush and still walked the same way, as if the wide road was nothing more than a narrow path through the muskeg and spruce. — Joseph Boyden

Every man should write a brief history of his life: his parentage, his birth, his religion, when he was baptized and by whom, when ordained, what to, and by whom-give a brief sketch of all his missions and of all his official acts and the dealings of God with him. Then if he were to die and the historians wished to publish his history, they would have something to go by. — Wilford Woodruff

Find your passion and live your best life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. — Maya Angelou