Ojaa Board Quotes & Sayings

Here's a story, and you don't have to visit many
houses to find it. One person is talking,
the other one is not really listening.
Someone can look like they are but they're
actually thinking about something they
want to say, or their minds are just
wandering. Or they're looking at that
little box people hold in their hands these
days. And people get discouraged, so they
quit trying. And the very quiet people,
you may have noticed, are often the sad
people. — Mary Oliver

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully. — Mike Aquilina

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow. — Robert Browning

In the twenties the religious education of
children was classified as a political crime under Article 58-10 of the Code - in other words, counterrevolutionary propaganda! True, one was still permitted to renounce one's religion at one's trial: it didn't often happen but it nonetheless did happen that the father would renounce his religion and remain at home to raise the children while the mother went to the Solovetsky Islands. (Throughout all those years women manifested great firmness in their faith.) All persons convicted of religious activity received tenners, the longest term then given. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Is it a world in the making
that turns as it whistles to the depths of my being
It is burning
Suppose it were to appear
A bleeding rosary at the window
a sun setting on the marshlands
("Silver Clasp") — Paul Dermee

I've always been singing, and acting was just something that happened. — Thalia

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to. — Herman Cain

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it. — Mac Davis

The cheek of the man. She liked cheek. She liked a man who spoke to her as if she was a person, an equal as if she were in on the joke. — Julie Anne Long

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak. — Karl Marx

And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn. — Neal Shusterman

Pursuit of passion, — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not that people are mean to each other; it's just that they haven't forgotten the times when being selfless brought them loneliness & pain. — Saurabh Sharma

I don't think she liked being called a slut, I don't know why ... some women are just funny like that. — Cecelia Ahern

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University. — Ren Ng