Ocasek Sons Quotes & Sayings

Holiness is not a bid to be noticed or loved or accepted by God. Holiness, rather, is acting out and acting upon the truth that God has noticed, loved and accepted us long before we did anything to warrant that. — Mark Buchanan

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth. — O. J. Brigance

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it. — Elizabeth Taylor

If you are going to leave message, you have to be able to give enough value or reason to get your voice mail returned. — Jeffrey Gitomer

The kind of boy's club I'm used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, 'I'm sensitive and nerdy,' but actually, it's like, 'You're a huge child and you're terrified of women, but you don't like sports, so you think that makes you less of a misogynist.' — Julie Klausner

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble. — Emmet Fox

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. — Zig Ziglar

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care,
Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips

Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love. — Philip Yancey

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself. — Igor Stravinsky

The world's not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can't. — Branch Rickey

Sauce grinned. 'Anytime, baby,' she said.
'We could make that our motto,' allowed the Captain. — Miles Cameron

As with all the principles of aikijutsu, you do not meet the force of the strike head-on. You parry, you step to the side to avoid the blow, your redirect the force and unbalance your opponent. It is the same with the ken, the sword. These principles apply to you daily life as well. Never meet a person's anger directly. Deflect, distract him, even agree with him. Unbalance his mind, and you can lead him anywhere you want. — Tan Twan Eng