Conches Quotes

#1. In London, like in conches, Mr. MacDowell or MacDowness, time could be seen. Time was stamped in stone, in iron and in marble. And it was not only the buildings; people also occupied a place in the stratified flow of decades and centuries.

Sylvia Iparraguirre

#2. Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

Alan Cohen

#3. Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

William Of Conches

#4. Hear more than people say.
Give more than people ask.
Do more than people expect.
Achieve more than people imagine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.

Hermann Hesse

#6. Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason ... But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.

William Of Conches

#7. No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.

William Of Conches

#8. It can't help but knock things down.

Steve Forbes

#9. [They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

William Of Conches

#10. What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time ... ?

Anne Lamott

#11. We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.

Harry S. Truman

#12. Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#13. Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

Alex Lowe