Politiker Oestreich Quotes & Sayings

Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him. — Pope Francis

Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people "for what you guys did over there." Thanks for what, I wanted to ask - shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on people's homes? — Nathaniel Fick

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year. — Benjamin Zablocki

Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it. — Alexander McCall Smith

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. — Alison Bechdel

How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could. — Jack Gilbert

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow. — Ice Cube

Music is color blind. — Michael James Jackson

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed. — Terry Bradshaw

Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone. — Michael Ruppert

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly. — Markus Zusak

Prejudice begins with ignorance, and whenever one culture first meets another, there is ignorance. — Vinh Chung

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey. — Ray Davies