Markowicz Jocelyn Quotes & Sayings

All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief. — LeRoy Pope Walker

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance ... like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying. — Ken Kesey

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell. — Whoopi Goldberg

Gandhi put it this way: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. — Jeff Olson

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it. — Dallas Willard

Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety. — Scott Stossel

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil. — Ernest Becker

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water. — Eugie Foster

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end. — Daniel Tammet

Close your eyes and look inside,
A mirror shines within;
To find where you are going,
First see where you have been. — Charles Ghigna

What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game. — Umberto Eco