Oksenberg Stanford Quotes & Sayings

If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen. — Barbara Eden

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired. — Brian Wilson

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people. — Olafur Eliasson

He found himself smiling and talking politely to people who desired to show their respect and admiration for his uniform-instead of ignoring them and turning away. His sense of separation from and annoyance with these men and women who talked so glibly of war and who had not the faintest notion of what war was ebbed away; and he began to accept the fact that to chatter nonsense with neither knowledge nor perception was the ordinary manner of mankind. — Howard Fast

When we are at our absolute lowest and weakest, Jesus invites us to hand him everything we have left. He invites us to give him our little, whatever our little is. When we give away our little, we place our full confidence in him. — Louie Giglio

Talk less about the years to come,
Live, love labor more today. — Christian Nestell Bovee

She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired. — Maeve Binchy

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up. — Tom Clancy

Hell, rationality itself - the exalted Human ability to reason - hadn't evolved in the pursuit of truth but simply to win arguments, to gain control: to bend others, by means logical or sophistic, to your will. — Peter Watts

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. — Darynda Jones

I am pressed, but not broken. I am confused, but not despairing. I am hunted by the enemy but not abandoned by God. I have been thrown down, but I am not finished yet. — George Sousa

We have to come back to basics: learning how to take care of ourselves. Not only learning to love our bodies - and that's a good beginning - but to take care of our bodies and ourselves by learning how to eat and how to think. I think living is really about thoughts and food, and we've got to get back to basics. — Louise Hay

The Taylors have this gift for imperturbable presence. They are not nervous talkers. The Harrises, on the other hand, have always been constant talkers, not so much for the sake of entertainment or information but because if a silence caught and held for too long they might have fallen into a bottomless sullen discord, a frozen mutual quietude that could never be broken because there never had been and never would be a shared topic of sufficient reviving urgency (not at least one either of his parents could bear to broach), and so they needed to hydroplane forward together on an ever-replenished slick of remark and opinion ... — Michael Cunningham