Poledouris Conan Quotes & Sayings

I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs. — Lorine Niedecker

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be. — Alison Gopnik

There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize. — Frederick William Robertson

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status. — Laozi

Be + Have = Behave. You will experience your success when you BEHAVE accordingly. BE and you shall HAVE. — Steve Maraboli

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. — Tony Hillerman

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ... — Ana Castillo

You have to protect your food, otherwise someone else takes it! There is no divinity in here! But there is divinity there: In a civilised order where no being has to defend for its food! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic. — Frank Miller

You don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago, — Paulo Coelho

Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, where the heck's the toilet plunger gone? — Shel Silverstein

I loved football even before I married a quarterback; it's not for every woman, but I like it. — Holly Robinson Peete