Oconnells Sports Quotes & Sayings

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. — Anonymous

Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit. — Tom Robbins

I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. — Claudette Colvin

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth
we call it life. — Anne Carson

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram's grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air. — Pawan Mishra

To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule. — Auliq Ice

In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. To be magnanimous with interior liberty and a spirit of service, spiritual formation is necessary. Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus Christ ever more! — Pope Francis

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self. — Minor White

When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore. — Rabih Alameddine

For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone ... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture. — Kay Coles James

God doesn't ask us to understand, but He does ask us to trust. — Kristen McNulty