Oculos Quotes & Sayings

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other. — Ayn Rand

I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl. — Lea Michele

Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived. — Hildegard Of Bingen

Showers are good. Perhaps not as good as bacon, but good. — Rick Riordan

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.46 — Walter Isaacson

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. — Natalie Goldberg

Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime. — Ann Rinaldi

They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat. — Donna Tartt

Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. — Aldous Huxley

She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a week. — Debbie Macomber

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger. — Pythagoras

To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death. — C.J. Mahaney

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think abuot the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do. — John C. Maxwell