Obscurities Dallas Quotes & Sayings

I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke! — Jo Brand

Change what you can.
Endure what you must .
Do what you ought.
Achieve what you will. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I want to be six years old again - just for a day.
It's not that things were so much better back then. They sucked.
But I was the kind of kid who knew how to laugh about it all.
That's what I want. I want to laugh. — Jaye Murray

If we take out one, we have to take out all. We can't risk collateral damage."
"Say 'collateral damage' again. That sounded sexy. — Brigid Kemmerer

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. — Richard Hooker

Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat — Marc Bekoff

Every inch of you, outside and any way you can get inside, baby, physically or emotionally, is mine. You don't share that. Ever. — Kristen Ashley

Now I just think about who else is kissing her. I can't breathe because he only kisses her once. He doesn't care if its perfect. — Neil Hilborn

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please. — Willa Cather

Be Good-Do Good-Be One — Kirpal Singh

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! — T. S. Eliot

We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don't give up. Find out what you're made of. — Vironika Tugaleva

Sometimes, we don't get what we want ... But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do. — Melody Beattie

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God ... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire. — George Santayana