Oblivion Band Quotes & Sayings

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else. — Johnny Hunt

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party. — Vladimir Lenin

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. — Lionel Trilling

I lost all respect for angstroms. — Heinrich Rohrer

human redemption was accomplished through Jesus's death and resurrection. — Walter A. Elwell

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers. — Bernard Berenson

The holy scriptures and the spoken word of the living prophets give emphasis to the fundamental principles and doctrines of the gospel. The reason we return to these foundational principles, to the pure doctrines, is because they are the gateway to truths of profound meaning. They are the door to experiences of sublime importance that would otherwise be beyond our capacity to comprehend. These simple, basic principles are the key to living in harmony with God and man. They are the keys to opening the windows of heaven. They lead us to the peace, joy, and understanding that Heavenly Father has promised to His children who hear and obey Him. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. — Alan Bennett

Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth. — Thomas Jefferson

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival? — Joan Baez

Sex outdoors is great. I'm not an exhibitionist, but I love the possibility that people might be able to see. — Ali Landry

Unfortunately, the trading of political influence for money has come back in a big way in American politics, this time in a form that is perfectly legal and much harder to eradicate. Criminalized bribery is narrowly defined in American law as a transaction in which a politician and a private party explicitly agree upon a specific quid pro quo exchange. What is not covered by the law is what biologists call reciprocal altruism, or what an anthropologist might label a gift exchange. In a relationship of reciprocal altruism, one person confers a benefit on another with no explicit expectation that it will immediately buy a return favor, unlike an impersonal market transaction. — Francis Fukuyama

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end. — Ziggy Marley