Cailean Oneill Quotes

#1. I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

Charles Bronson

#2. To live! like a tree alone and free,
To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood ...

Nazim Hikmet

#3. They cursed us. Murderer they called us. They cursed us, and drove us away. And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we only wish to catch fish so juicy sweet. And we forgot the taste of bread ... the sound of trees ... the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Stephen Spender

#5. The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory ... without emptiness.

Allie Burke

#6. In The End

In the end, the mountains of imagination were nothing
but a house.
And this grand life of mine was nothing but an excuse.
You've been hearing my story so patiently for a lifetime
Now hear this: it was nothing but a fairy tale.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#7. The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. Friends are always pretty, even when they're not.

Ali Smith

#9. The better we get, the better we want to be.

Gay Hendricks

#10. A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals,

Christopher Dodd

#11. As it happens, most studies have found that unexpected rewards are much less destructive than the rewards people are told about beforehand and are deliberately trying to obtain.

Alfie Kohn

#12. I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

Tarvaris Jackson