Ombudsman California Quotes & Sayings

It's so stupid how someone touching you - just their skin on your skin - can make you feel all sorts of things you don't want to feel. — Sarra Manning

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament ... — Soren Kierkegaard

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. — Sigmund Freud

grass is slightly frosty and I enjoy hearing it crunch — Emma Healey

Whoever, however close to me you may be. Nobody can change my emotions. Even if I am sad it's my own problem, not somebody else's. — Rajashree Choudhury

In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal. — Ellen Page

A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation. — Chogyam Trungpa

But all attractions are alike,' he said. 'They come from an emptiness inside.' He hammered on this chest with his index finger. 'Something's missing and you have to fill it. Books, paintings, people, they're all the same...'
'A lot of people do without books and paintings.'
'True,' he said, 'but that doesn't affect the argument.' Paris turned his head to one side and chewed on his lip. 'Of course, nothing ever does the trick. Nobody's really satisfied for long. — Siri Hustvedt

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. — Pablo Picasso

Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world. — Pope Francis