Ocius Nine Quotes & Sayings

Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities. — Dhirubhai Ambani

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. — Salvador Dali

How embarrassing it is to be human. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity. — Saint Augustine

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. — Chuck Palahniuk

Have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them. — Brad Thor

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything. — Larry Csonka

But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have come to us from cultural groups within which women have absolutely no rights. They do not have a voice of their own and they are totally dependent on their fathers, brothers or husbands. That applies to North Africa and that applies to large parts of the Middle East. It isn't always linked to Islam. — Alice Schwarzer

I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error! — Peter Greenaway

In losing her he lost not merely his main source of companionship but also his primary adviser, whose observations he had found so useful in helping shape his own thinking. — Erik Larson

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free. — Adlai Stevenson I

I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss. — Alex Flinn