Ouday Quotes & Sayings

Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ... — Agatha Christie

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. — Kim Weston

Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision. — Steven D. Levitt

Walking is almost as important as breathing, for me. — Paulo Coelho

Love can be founded upon Nature only. — William Shenstone

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment. — John C. Maxwell

You can love the ocean, and many do, but don't expect it to love you back. It's too forever — Cody McFadyen

Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word. — Debbie Macomber

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do — Patricia Fripp

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive. — Madonna Ciccone

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America. — Sue Wicks

I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious ... What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs. — Margaret Thatcher

No matter what I study, I can see patterns. I see the gestalt, the melody within the notes, in everything: mathematics and science, art and music, psychology and sociology. As I read the texts, I can think only that the authors are plodding along from one point to the next, groping for connections that they can't see. They're like a crowd of people unable to read music, peering at the score for a Bach sonata, trying to explain how one note leads to another. As glorious as these patterns are, they also whet my appetite for more. There are other patterns waiting to be discovered, gestalts of another scale entirely. With respect to those, I'm blind myself; all my sonatas are just isolated data points by comparison. I have no idea what form such gestalts might assume, but that'll come in time. I want to find them, and comprehend them. I want this more than anything I've ever wanted before. The — Ted Chiang