Owna Lane Quotes & Sayings

From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator. — Adam Sedgwick

Give children kindness, presence, and respect to help them develop a deeper sense of empathy. The art of seeing and meeting others as they are. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority. — Erwin Rommel

The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea. — Anne Perry

Nothing needs a war. There is no problem that needs a war to bring it to a resolution. — Benjamin Creme

One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism. — Francisco Franco

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation. — Vance Havner

You make the choice for change more easily and readily each time as your conscious mind begins to reprogram your subconscious mind with a new habit, and the decision is reinforced by that positive change. — Marshall Sylver

We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable
that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over. — Philip Zimbardo

And every day past is just another step for fools on the way to their deaths. — William Shakespeare

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements. — George Washington

I mellowed out; my daughter mellowed me out, and I don't get mad at anyone. — Tracy Morgan