Okanagans Soya Quotes & Sayings

You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away. — French Montana

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold. — Dwight L. Moody

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. — Lester B. Pearson

The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating energy that issues out of its peaceableness. It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility. Its fertility is always building up out of death into promise. Death is the bridge or the tunnel by which its past enters its future. — Wendell Berry

Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem. — George Leef

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor. — William Shakespeare

History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian. — Justo L. Gonzalez

Whenever I'm worried about anything," said this guy Ben, "I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort. Svetlana — Elif Batuman