Ohanesian Quotes & Sayings

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people. — Chad Kroeger

There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation. — Aline Ohanesian

Tell yourself whatever you need to hear, you're the only one listening. — Gia Carangi

I smoke on the mic like Smokin' Joe Frazier,
The hell raiser, raisin' hell with the flavor. — Inspectah Deck

The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself. — Eckhart Tolle

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter. — Bill Keller

Time and progress are two long-lost relatives who send an occasional letter. — Aline Ohanesian

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart. — Kim Gordon

Orhan fixates on the word genocide. Massacres abound in his country's history, as they do in any nation's history. But genocide is a different accusation altogether. Why do they insist on using that word? — Aline Ohanesian

Silence is the enemy of justice. — Aline Ohanesian

if you paid enough attention to your past, it would grow and grow, obscure your present as well as your future. — Aline Ohanesian

Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances. — Richard Hughes

art is always intense when it's transformative. — Aline Ohanesian

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child. — Max Lucado

Everything we do is political," she says. "Even the things we choose not to do. — Aline Ohanesian

All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference. — Aline Ohanesian

My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party. — La India

His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone. — Aline Ohanesian

blocks away. And Selfridge's department store will have anything you need." "I do need a dress for the weekend." She claps her well-manicured hands, nails painted in fire engine red. "Ooh, shopping. I'll go with you if you want." "It'll have to be tonight after work." "No — Magda Alexander

There, in the spaces between darkness and light, a sadness hangs in the air, invisible to the human eye yet heavy on the heart. — Aline Ohanesian

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune. — Cameron Monaghan

Where is your Christian god now?" the turbaned assassin shouts. Lucine thinks it is a good question. Not one person answers him. Not Mairig and not the missionary. Perhaps they sense what Lucine already knows, that if God is indeed anywhere, he is not here. — Aline Ohanesian

We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action. — Aline Ohanesian

It is the first time she has witnessed a murder. — Aline Ohanesian

And I'm not ashamed or regretful. I spent my days loving those who mattered to me. What else is there in life? — Aline Ohanesian

Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly — Al Purdy

You have to have fear in order to have courage. — Ronda Rousey

A visit to Israel is always an experience in cognitive dissonance. The Israel you personally see and hear is so completely different from the Israel you read and hear about in the media. — Alan Dershowitz