Ordainment Quotes & Sayings

There was in it a moment of indignity, nearly comedic - a feeling that I had lost my balance. But I had not. — Elizabeth Berg

Psychology narrows the cause for personal unhappiness down to the person himself, and then he is stuck with himself. But we know that the universal and general cause for personal badness, guilt, and inferiority is the natural world and the person's relationship to it as a symbolic animal who must find a secure place in it. All the analysis in the world doesn't allow the person to find out who he is and why he is here on earth, why he has to die, and how he can make his life a triumph. It is when psychology pretends to do this, when it offers itself as a full explanation of human unhappiness, that it becomes a fraud that makes the situation of modern man on impasse from which he cannot escape. — Ernest Becker

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts. — Theodore Roosevelt

The easiest way to make life beautiful is to always believe that it is beautiful. — Debasish Mridha

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George? — Barbara Bush

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing. — Tim Winton

Don't deny you feel it too. There's no goin' back for us, Liberty. — Lorelei James

Text of pleasure: the text that contents, fills, grants euphoria; the text that comes from culture and does not break with it, is linked to a comfortable practice of reading.
Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain
boredom), unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language.
Now the subject who keeps the two texts in his field and in his hands the reins of pleasure and bliss is an anachronic subject, for he simultaneously and contradictorily participates in the profound hedonism of all culture (which permeates him quietly under the cover of an "art de vivre" shared by the old books) and in the destruction of that culture: he enjoys the consistency of his selfhood (that is his pleasure) and seeks its loss (that is his bliss). He is a subject split twice over, doubly perverse. — Roland Barthes

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off. — E.F. Schumacher

ABC forbids political activity by journalists. — Bill Dedman

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be. — Dan Quayle

Make arrangements, yet don't live for tomorrow. Live throughout today. As you get up every morning, be thankful that you are given one more day to take in more lessons. You are given more opportunities to get on track, to live all the more genuinely and transparently, to love more, and to give more. — Adam Green

When I was in high school, my mom gave me a paperweight. It was when I was going through my 'not that interested in doing homework or really working on anything' phase and the paperweight said "If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes." And that's sort of the same thing, if you're not always working to be in the front. — Amanda Schull

Set goals that are BOLD enough to scare you, but inspiring and exciting enough for you to commit 100% to! — Hal Elrod

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest. — Dante Alighieri