Ocakes Quotes & Sayings

She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely. — Mohsin Hamid

Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program. — Christopher Titus

While versioning sets different prices for different versions of one product in order to approximate the optimal revenue rates of personal pricing, bundling aims to achieve that by offering several products in one package. Therefore, the customers may choose whether to acquire products separately or in a bundle. This approach is particularly useful, when it is assumed that the customers have heterogenous willingness to pay for each product. — Christof Weinhardt

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics. — Aristotle.

A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army. — Antoine-Henri Jomini

His manner was polite; his accent, in speaking, struck me as being somewhat unusual, - not precisely foreign, but still not altogether English: his age might be about Mr. Rochester's, - between thirty and forty; his complexion was singularly sallow: otherwise he was a fine-looking man, at first sight especially. On closer examination, you detected something in his face that displeased, or rather that failed to please. His features were regular, but too relaxed: his eye was large and well cut, but the life looking out of it was a tame, vacant life - at least so I thought. — Charlotte Bronte

I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. — LaToya Jackson

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had. — C.S. Lewis

An economy should exist for the people who inhabit it, not the other way around. The purpose of an economy is to provide everyone with opportunities to live full, happy, and productive lives. Yet when most people come to view the economic game as rigged, this most basic purpose cannot be achieved. It is impossible to live happily in a society that seems fundamentally unfair or to live well in a nation rife with anger and cynicism. — Robert B. Reich

If it weren't for the friends I have in books, I'd have no friends at all. — P.A. Hopkins

One of my favorite examples involves Dr. Peter Greenspan, a Jewish obstetrician-gynecologist who also teaches at a medical school. The more he read books by critics who were trying to attack the prophecies, the more he recognized the flaws in their arguments. Ironically, concluded Greenspan, "I think I actually came to faith in Y'shua [Jesus] by reading what detractors wrote."36 — Ravi Zacharias

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil. — J.C. Ryle

There is no dangerous path for the water; there is no dangerous path for the fearless! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out. — Joan Miro