Ossalatu Quotes & Sayings

My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality. — Mario Bunge

ALCIBIADES: How came the noble Timon to this change?
TIMON: As the moon does, by wanting light to give:
But then renew I could not, like the moon;
There were no suns to borrow of. — William Shakespeare

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door. — Napoleon Hill

Allow yourself to graduate, every five years. — Cathy Guisewite

Tears aren't a sign of weakness, but of strength of the heart. They show you care and caring is never a bad thing. — Micalea Smeltzer

I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts. — Demetri Martin

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success
on tactical errors and pipe dreams. — David Grann

Though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing. For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. — Augustine Of Hippo

I am what I am. There is nothing more to be said. — Oscar Wilde

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have ... an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises? — William Wilberforce

We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation? — Cindee Snider Re