Orleck Military Quotes & Sayings

Religion in Chinatown, as in most places, is based less on a cogent theology and more on a collection of random fears, superstitions, prejudices, forgotten customs, vestigial animism, and social control. Mrs. Ling, while a professed Buddhist of the Pure Land tradition, also kept waving cat charms, lucky coins, and put great faith in the good fortune of the color red ... and was very much in favor of any tradition, superstition, or ritual that involved fireworks ... — Christopher Moore

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? — John Muir

It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. — Steve Buscemi

These men used to be failures and losers. They used to trip over each other. They were in debt. They were discontented and distressed, but they started in that cave with David, and they gathered into him and sat at his feet, and he "captained" them. They slowly changed and grew and turned into mighty men of God - not mighty men of David - mighty men if God. They gathered to David, but he made them mighty men of God. — Mark T. Barclay

Understanding the intricacies involved in raising someone with a physical or mental challenge for those who have never experienced it is like trying to understand anything foreign; impossible, though definitely worth doing anyway. — Lynette Louise

Much of my rebelliousness starts with indifference to what is urgently important to others. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The comfort and sweetness of peace. — Helen Steiner Rice

Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em. — Harper Lee

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts — Henry Ford

What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them. — Orson Scott Card

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. — Roger McGuinn

you don't think yourself into a new way of acting, you act yourself into a new way of thinking. — David Robertson

A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits. — Ellen Key