Ochotorena Family Tree Quotes & Sayings

We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight. — Andrew Pyper

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations. — Clayton M Christensen

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. — Marie Curie

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want. — Jonathan Price

If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government
which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill. — Helen Prejean

A final irony has to do with the idea of political responsibility. Christians are urged to vote and become involved in politics as an expression of their civic duty and public responsibility. This is a credible argument and good advice up to a point. Yet in our day, given the size of the state and the expectations that people place on it to solve so many problems, politics can also be a way of saying, in effect, that the problems should be solved by others besides myself and by institutions other than the church. It is, after all, much easier to vote for a politician who champions child welfare than to adopt a baby born in poverty, to vote for a referendum that would expand health care benefits for seniors than to care for an elderly and infirmed parent, and to rally for racial harmony than to get to know someone of a different race than yours. True responsibility invariably costs. Political participation, then, can and often does amount to an avoidance of responsibility. — James Davison Hunter

It's refreshing to see you using your psychology skills for evil as well as for good. — Kristin Walker

Of the insolence of the Scots, my father used to say, there is no end. — Bernard Cornwell