Okkur Quotes & Sayings

But the rain gods went away. They ain't coming back, either." "How do you know that?" "They got no reason to. We don't believe in them no more. — James Lee Burke

It could be that our longing for Revolution is like our longing for perfect love, the impulse we all have for union that was for so long met by religion. However we assign these yearnings, it is difficult to ignore the obvious need for change. Some of us will ascribe it to romantic love, some to consumerism, some to utopianism. It doesn't really matter. What is important is that for the first time in history we have the means to implement a truly representative system, the means to globally communicate it, and the conditions that require it. — Russell Brand

There is no such thing as a man-eating shark, only shark-eating men exist. — Melissa Haynes

We generally get the juries we deserve. — Harper Lee

An upturned tortoise is the ninth most pathetic thing in the entire multiverse. — Terry Pratchett

There was no reason why I should go anywhere. The world about me seemed like a vision that was hurrying by while I stood still with my pain. — George Eliot

Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty. — Alvin Langdon Coburn

Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living. — Robert M. Pirsig

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it? — Rabia Basri

Most marriage problems are not really marriage problems, they are God problems. They can be traced back to one, or both, having a poor relationship with God, or a faulty understanding of him. An accurate picture of God is vital to a healthy marriage. It's vital to everything. — Francis Chan

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999). — Jim Highsmith