Occupentant Quotes & Sayings

We give up too soon. The sure way to succeed is to endure to the very end. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity. — Tim Robbins

I'd like to walk there again. It was so lonely - a nice kind of loneliness, and all grass and clover and soft sea air. — C.S. Lewis

Dear Aunt Patty,
Thank you for coming to be part of what definitely ranks in the top five worst days of my life. While your generosity is appreciated, I am returning this gift, as forced bachelorhood necessitates total abstinence from bamboo placemats and matching napkin rings in my daily life.
Sincerely,
Emory
Too much? — Cary Attwell

I will conquer the whole world and fill it with myself — Rumi

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time. — Dan Ariely

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better. — Evelyn Waugh

If, however, we pursue what is expressed in the phrase 'the language of things', we are pointed in a similar direction. The language of things too is something to which we should pay better attention. This expression also has a kind of polemical accent. It expresses the fact that, in general, we are not at all ready to hear things in there own being, that they are subjected to man's calculus and to his domination of nature through the rationality of science. — GADAMER, HANS GEORG

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. — Robert Breault

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Work is a major instrument of God's providence; it is how he sustains the human world. — Timothy Keller

Innovation no longer remains a choice but has become an imperative. — Narendra Modi

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them. — Sharon Horgan

Here are just a few of the unnecessary burdens women are often made to bear. Single women are made to feel that they are "less than" other women; women who are gifted for a career are made to feel that college or a career is a waste of time and that these women are resisting "God's best" for them. Women whose interests, giftings, and opportunities do not fit the mold of post-industrial-revolution suburbia are disdained by other women who have been gifted with husbands, fruitful uteruses, and inclinations that better portray what has been elevated to the greatest expression of godliness for a woman: the stay-at-home mom. And stay-at-home moms are weighted with additional pressures: it's not enough to be home; they must also serve on every committee, live in a perfectly decorated (and always clean) house, and have perfectly behaved children. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

All farms require a resident dreamer, someone to thumb through seed catalogs in the cold days of late January, imagining summer fields of squash and cucumbers, tomatoes and sunflowers. Fall harvests are the reward of winter dreams. Someone must decide where the next fence should be placed, or conceive of a clever new way to organize the market stand. On a farm, there's no shortage of little dreams needing to be dreamed. — Forrest Pritchard