Obliques Exercises Quotes & Sayings

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping. — Eric Maisel

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. — Jose Marti

The incarnation (becoming flesh) of God is at the very center of the gospel event by which God restores the true relationship between himself and the human race. — Graeme Goldsworthy

Don't take these from anyone but me or Shep. I don't want anyone slipping anything in your drink. — Jamie McGuire

The kind of place," I said, still safely in linguistic territory that needed no gender marking, "that will rent me a sledge and sell me a hypothermia kit. How much? — Ann Leckie

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. — John Burns

Will, it makes me proud to say that you might just be on the verge of not being a complete idiot. — Mark Frost

What does Resistance feel like? First, unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We're bored, we're restless. We can't get no satisfaction. There's guilt but we can't put our finger on the source. We want to go back to bed; we want to get up and party. We feel unloved and unlovable. We're disgusted. We hate our lives. We hate ourselves. — Steven Pressfield

We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times. — Barbara Mikulski

God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith. — Kahlil Gibran

In the same way, I saw our General once approach the table in a stolid, important manner. A lacquey darted to offer him a chair, but the General did not even notice him. Slowly he took out his money bags, and slowly extracted 300 francs in gold, which he staked on the black, and won. Yet he did not take up his winnings - he left them there on the table. Again the black turned up, and again he did not gather in what he had won; and when, in the third round, the RED turned up he lost, at a stroke, 1200 francs. Yet even then he rose with a smile, and thus preserved his reputation; yet I knew that his money bags must be chafing his heart, as well as that, had the stake been twice or thrice as much again, he would still have restrained himself from venting his disappointment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky