Oakland Ia Funeral Home Quotes & Sayings

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like. — Bill Nighy

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy. — Bruce McCulloch

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practise which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. — Muriel Spark

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it. — Mahatma Gandhi

The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends. — Robert J. Havighurst

There is but on virtue
the eternal sacrifice of self. — George Sand

They don't know I'm staring, what does it matter if I keep on doing it? — Zach Braff

It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. — Edmund Burke

Once one's vision changes to, 'I don't have a sofa in my house', he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the 'necessity'. — Dada Bhagwan