Owethu41 Quotes & Sayings

In the United States, everything is permitted, even encouraged: "Go for it, try it, do it," we are urged, no matter what the "it" might be. But, while everything might be permitted, practically nothing is forgiven. By contrast, in the Church much is not permitted: "If you love me, keep my commandments," Jesus says (Jn. 15:10). But, while much is not permitted, everything can be forgiven. Our culture pulls us towards vengeance; our faith towards mercy. — Francis George

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff. — Mike Carey

She went on because there was no going back. — Juliet Marillier

That's the thing about human beings: if we have a crush on someone, that person's every behavior attracts us even more. But if we don't like that person, the very same behavior will annoy us. — Josh Sundquist

One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life. — Annia Ciezadlo

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill. — Anthony Kiedis

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Love is funny like that. Love stays with us, whether we want it or not. — Heather Lyons

Don't clock off from life, you are still standing and that is testament there is more to live. Embrace life. — Tony Curl

When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked. — Carolyn Hax

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. — Emma Goldman

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with. — Calvin Coolidge