Ovchinnikov Sergey Quotes & Sayings

God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger. — Garry Wills

I can't help thinking that if the American West were discovered today, the most glorious bits would be sold off to the highest bidder. Yosemite might be nothing but weekend homes for Internet tycoons. — Nicholas Kristof

You have truly gained the mastery of the very stronghold of philosophy, Mother. For without doubt only for lack of words you did not elaborate on this subject as did Tullius [Cicero], whose words will follow. For in the Hortensius, the book he wrote on the praise and defense of philosophy, he said: 'But see, surely not the philosophers but all given to argument say that those who live just as they wish are happy.' This is definitely false; for to want what is not appropriate is the worst of all miseries. It is not so miserable not to get what you want as to want to get what you ought not. Wickedness of will brings to everyone greater evil than good fortune brings good. — Augustine Of Hippo

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have. — Anthony Mackie

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart. — Dean Koontz

A dream has power to poison sleep. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue. — Kristin Cashore

I felt just the way Billie Holiday sounded, like I'd cried all I could and it wasn't enough. — Janet Fitch

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. — Helen Keller