Combat Sambo Quotes

#1. Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.

Orison Swett Marden

#2. Do people know which risks lead to many deaths and which risks lead to few?" the legal scholar Cass Sunstein asks. "They do not. In fact, they make huge blunders." Sunstein draws this observation from the work of Paul Slovic, author of The Perception of Risk.

Eula Biss

#3. You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

Ani DiFranco

#4. A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick.
John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

John Steinbeck

#5. I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.

Douglas Rushkoff

#6. Gabe prayed for the strength not to strangle his future father-in-law for the fiftieth time.

Melanie Dickerson

#7. The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

John Buford

#8. You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the texture that, you know - it's all over the record 'cause it's a nice compliment to her tone.

Mark Ronson

#9. You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)

Paulo Coelho

#10. Plus he'd been raised on a farm, or near a farm anyways, and anybody raised on a farm knew you had to do what you had to do in terms of sick animals or extra animals - the pup being not sick, just extra.

George Saunders

#11. The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

Wayne Dyer

#12. The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

William Stafford

#13. Marriage is a matter for common sense."
"But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?"
"No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Every journey begins with a single step.

Lao-Tzu

#15. is Mary, the lowly virgin from Nazareth, in whom a new beginning takes place, in whom human existence starts afresh.

Pope Benedict XVI