Ojohnnies Quotes & Sayings

I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary. — Rose George

The rich, being people too, doing all they could to cope with the night sweats and zombie terrors of making fourteen hundred times as much money as the people working for them, made — Kim Stanley Robinson

If the world charged us for its labor,
we would be perpetually in debt.
If the sun charged the world for its labor,
the world would be continually in debt.
If the universe charged the sun for its labor,
the sun would be incessantly in debt.
If the God charged the universe for His labor,
the universe would be eternally in debt. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Hey," he's saying softly, "hey . . . this isn't like you." How would you know? she thinks. Nobody knows what is like me. I'm not even sure I know. — Jojo Moyes

Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They — Catherine Ryan Hyde

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Seeds send down a runner beneath the surface. Before making an appearance above ground, the seed first grows beneath the surface. In the same way, we must first go deep in order to find the source of living water to sustain our lives. We must go deep into the Word of G-D lest we build ourselves on a foundation of shifting sand and get blown over in the first storm that comes into our lives. We must first grow beneath the surface. — Eric Walker

Education isn't play
and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work. — Thomas A. Edison

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. — Barbara Kingsolver

She wasn't some little princess from the suburbs who just graduated college with a humanities degree, she knew what people were really like. — David Wong

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted. — Rush Limbaugh

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time. — Del Shannon