Obinove Quotes & Sayings

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life. — Max Lucado

If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way. — Sun Tzu

The people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting them to new sins), come to Him, our Savior, with perfect repentance for tormenting Him, who despise all the strength of the fetters of sin and force themselves to break their bonds ? such people at last actually appear before the face of God made whiter than snow by His grace. 'Come, says the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them whiter than snow' (Isa. 1:18). — Seraphim Of Sarov

... it occurs to me how often laughter accompanies tears — David Arnold

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. — Mahatma Gandhi

GOD: I own you like I own the caves.
THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison.
GOD: I made you. I could tame you.
THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now.
GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you.
THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me. — Dave Eggers

Halina tries to picture the American president seated triumphantly behind his desk some 6,000 kilometers west of them. V-E Day, Truman called it: Victory in Europe. But to Halina, the word victory feels hollow. False, even. here's hardly anything victorious about the ruined Warsaw they left, or about the fact that so much of the family is still missing, or about how all around them in what was once Lodz's massive ghetto, they can feel the ghosts of 200,000 Jews - most of whom, it's rumored, met their deaths in the gas vans and chambers of Chelmno and Auschwitz. — David Foenkinos

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled — Ric Charlesworth

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W.E.B. Du Bois

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

I've done coke 'til my nose was bleeding like the fourth week of Lilith Fair. — Doug Stanhope

That horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil. — James Redfield