Occasion Dodge Quotes

#1. In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Richard Rohr

#2. Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

Paul Kyriazi

#3. The basis of a good marriage, a reasonably happy marriage - don't delude yourself, there is no such thing as an entirely happy marriage - is, precisely, inequality.

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

#4. I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith ... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that ... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.

Doug Wead

#5. Remember, Matt, it's an exercise. That's called autobiography, the second enemy of listening.

Hartley Stevens

#6. I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

Mae West

#7. Hatred of oppression still distorts the features,
Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly.
Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness,
Could never be friendly ourselves.

Bertolt Brecht

#8. Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#9. I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

Nelson DeMille

#10. Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Abraham Maslow

#11. For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic anarchism, has become the core of the value system in the USA.

Eric Hobsbawm

#12. When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

John Irving

#13. In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

Bradford Cox