Opustraining Quotes & Sayings

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding. — Kahlil Gibran

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings. — Ben Bernanke

I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these acquisitions; but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profit of the chosen few. And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they, and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded their's. When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned? — Mary Shelley

Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? It's time for an awakening. — Karen Wheaton

Grace turns pennies into gold, pebbles into pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength, and needs into abundance. — Anonymous

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church. — Chris Oyakhilome

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. — Sam Houston

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. — Samuel Ullman