Opelousas Quotes

#1. Home in Missoula,
Home in Truckee,
Home in Opelousas,
Ain't no home for me.
Home in old Medora,
Home in Wounded Knee,
Home in Ogallala,
Home I'll never be

Jack Kerouac

#2. When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

Peter Senge

#3. Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Lady Gaga

#5. Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.

Thomas Merton

#6. I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was ... it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#7. I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.

Ewan McGregor

#8. Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

Craig Venter

#10. Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

Paulo Coelho

#11. He does hesitate, just for a moment, but he knows he will hate himself later if he doesn't at least try, no matter what might happen after.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. You must tell your money how you want to live your life, and not the other way round.

Manoj Arora

#13. I'm folding up my little dreams
Within my heart tonight,
And praying I may soon forget
The torture of their sight.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

#14. For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.

Jim Gaffigan

#15. A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

John Green

#16. You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.

Jimmy Carter