Ondakina Quotes & Sayings

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting. — Ang Lee

For most of their history in China, Pugs were treasured dogs. By law, they could only be owned by nobility or by Buddhist monks. However, because they were held in such high regard, they were also used as pawns in international relations. In 732 C.E., China gave a Pug to Japan as a gift to cement diplomatic relations. The Japanese became infatuated with this dog, and it became the first of many given to Japanese diplomats. — Liz Palika

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens. — Walter E. Williams

Was it a fact that every man had something in his life which palsied his arm, and struck him helpless in the battle for social justice? When — Upton Sinclair

Do good, feel good; feel good, do good. — Gretchen Rubin

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced. — Sophocles

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports. — Tom Welling

I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds. — Bubba Watson

He looks like shit, by the way. Hot shit, but shit nonetheless. - Anna Allen — S.C. Stephens

Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with reciprocal altruism the goal is that the organism be left under the impression that we've helped; the impression alone is enough to bring the reciprocation. — Robert Wright

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. — Anne Lamott

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit. — Idries Shah

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result. — Randy Pausch

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences. — Orlando Aloysius Battista