Ordinaire Oakland Quotes & Sayings

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. — Jesse Jackson

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies. — Bhartrhari

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes. — Michael Mandelbaum

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. — Alfred North Whitehead

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox. — Michio Kaku

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. — Thales

The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the beating heart of spirituality, and really, the heart's blood is the mystical experience. Not airy fairy vague mystical experience, but transformative, intimate experience that really touches your heart with love, and not just sex. — Surya Das

In the garden everything was wonderfully clear and still. The birds were chirping so energetically that Sophie could hardly keep from laughing. The morning dew twinkled in the grass like drops of crystal. Once again she was struck by the incredible wonder of the world. — Jostein Gaarder

By giving us control, our new technologies tend to enhance existing idols in our lives. Instead of becoming more like Christ through the forming and shaping influence of the church community, we form, and shape, and personalize our community to make it more like us. We take control of things that are not ours to control. Could it be that our desire for control is short-circuiting the process of change and transformation God wants us to experience through the mess of real world, flesh and blood, face-to-face relationships? — Tim Challies

Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms
so familiar at this time of year
can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain. — Dave Barry

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind. — Frederick Lenz

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. — Alan Alda

Here, the name of the game was opulence. The floors were cherrywood, the tablecloths silk, and the guests sparkling with enough diamonds to send a Christmas tree into an epileptic seizure. — Ella Summers

The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you. — Maurice Nicoll

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A. — Michaela Conlin