Ocasionado Quotes & Sayings

When he had joined the Freemasons he had experienced the feeling of one who confidently steps onto the smooth surface of a bog. When he put his foot down it sank in. To make quite sure of the firmness of the ground, he put his other foot down and sank deeper still, became stuck in it, and involuntarily waded knee-deep in the bog. — Leo Tolstoy

Origen rejected anthropomorphism, not because the scriptures or unanimous Christian tradition specifically rejected it, but because the philosophers "despised" it: "The Jews indeed, but also some of our people, supposed that God should be understood as a man, that is, adorned with human members and human appearance. But the philosophers despise these stories as fabulous and formed in the likeness of poetic fictions. — Barry Robert Bickmore

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game — Wilhelm Steinitz

We can step into uncharted territory and relax with the groundlessness of our situation; [we can] dissolve the dualistic tension between us and them, this and that, good and bad, by inviting in what we usually avoid. My teacher described this as leaning into the sharp points. — Pema Chodron

I call my dad 'Admiral Ass Hat,' he doesn't really think it's funny. — Jay Crownover

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living. — Park Chan-wook

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. — Louisa May Alcott

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams. — Roy Bennett

His presence alone works wonders for a wounded soul — Colleen Hoover