O. R. Melling Quotes
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
-
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
-
And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
-
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
-
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
-
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
-
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
-
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
-
I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
-
It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
-
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
-
I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
-
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
-
I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
-
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
-
Showbiz can be cruel.
-
People are going to criticize you no matter what, so I'm going to say whatever the hell I want to say.
-
Even after arriving in South Korea, it's dangerous. As a North Korean defector, I need to be careful from the spies to protect my relatives inside North Korea.
-
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths. Then I need all the comfort that practice has stored in my memory, a tenacity of faith.
-
The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?
-
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
-
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
