Occidentales English Quotes & Sayings

Remember, you have to plant a seed today if you want to promote growth tomorrow. Wishing you all a lovely summer full of reading. — K. Lamb

I can't grow a moustache. — Joe Jonas

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time. — J.C. Ryle

Connecting today is a dialogue. — Mark Parker

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?
People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future).
Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are. — Paul Arden

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. — C.S. Lewis

A greater sense of do-it-yourself (DIY) politics is exposed by the fact Cascadians are more likely to disagree that "voting is the only way people like me can have a say about how the government runs things" (54 percent disagree versus 37 percent, RoNA). — Douglas Todd

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate. — George Nelson

It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off. — Victoria Strauss

Historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths. I — Thomas King

When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually. — John Densmore