Ohlin Quotes & Sayings

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation. — Abigail Adams

As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better. — Mike Trout

Who, Abelard demanded, would forgive such a God for killing his own son? Abelard proposed that Christ died for the sake of love, providing a model of self-sacrificial passion for humankind. Salvation entailed imitating Christ in his love for others, the love that God revealed in Jesus's death for his friends. As Christ had done, we also do. As contemporary theologians Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker say of Abelard's view, "The atonement created a deeper love for God than would have been possible without it," creating the prospect that human hearts could be transformed "from fear to love."36 — Diana Butler Bass

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy, until Hari Seldon, and very few men thereafter, could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located - so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation - there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man. — Isaac Asimov

In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together. — Chris Jericho

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar. — Chris Pine

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. — Diane Wakoski

It takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing, — William Faulkner

Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know. — Michio Kaku

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show. — Noam Chomsky

I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977. — Robert Mundell

Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you. — Alix Ohlin

Can't you see that he's using you to get over his grief? That you're just a distraction? All the other girls know to keep their distance after what happened. He's an emotional train wreck, and he needs time. Friends. Not some love-starved loner throwing herself at him. — Nancy Ohlin

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights. — Ban Ki-moon

As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world? — Alix Ohlin

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love ... There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man. — Edith Sitwell

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you. — Bernie Mac

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy. — Ben Nelson

We were jigsawed, meant to fit together, making a whole picture. — Alix Ohlin

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain. — Jerry Garcia