Oddent Quotes & Sayings

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people. — Martin Luther

The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people. — Susanna Kearsley

I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself. — Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase. — Hunter S. Thompson

I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for. — Mark Vonnegut

Behind those happy eyes, you hide a mind that is terribly chaotic and that's what makes you, so beautiful. — Akshay Vasu

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing. — Epictetus

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep. — Kim Stanley Robinson

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it. — Ted Allen

God put me on earth for a few specific reasons. Being your mom was the most important and I I thank Him everyday for the opportunity and gift. — Paula Heller Garland

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry. — Mignon McLaughlin

Modern ideograph Cha was coined, evidently a corruption of the classic Tou. — Okakura Kakuzo