Jorka Youtube Quotes & Sayings

It is of course true that many modern combat sports are extremely demanding in terms of physical force, skill, and endurance. Indeed many athletes are much fitter and better trained than the vast majority of soldiers. However, all those various kinds of sport are based on artificial rules as to what is and is not permitted. Furthermore, and with the exception of fencing, a highly ritualized form of combat to which we shall return, even the most violent ones do not permit the players to use weapons. In their absence, most of those skills are too specialized to be of much military relevance. — Martin Van Creveld

The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit. — John Main

The River of Baptism I met, my spiritual adoption confirmed. The changing dramas in my life I experienced. The Holy language preceded my salvation found tongue, candidate of heavenly power I'm made. — Darmie Orem

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow. — Ellsworth Kelly

Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment. — Wolfgang Puck

Celebrate while you can — Joyce Carol Oates

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are. — Mitt Romney

This world has need of song and sword. — Patricia Briggs

It's hard to imagine a scenario where someone would say no to pancakes. — David Levithan

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds. — Andy Behrman

Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing. — Ron Rash

We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see. — Ted Dekker

It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook. — Ellen Goodman