Top 28 James Oliver Quotes

#1. Music is my higher power

Oliver James

#2. You're writing a book about Mansa Musa? I didn't know anyone in America knew who he was. He was our Lincoln!

P. James Oliver

#3. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Oliver James

#4. Nature is my religion. And my desire ... my ambition ... the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it ... if I can only get the two acquainted.

James Oliver Curwood

#5. I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

William Gibson

#6. Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

James Oliver

#7. Friend, you're HOPELESSLY hooked!

Oliver James

#8. backing down can become a way of life

Oliver James

#9. Here's the plan: I'll go in and palaver while you surround them."
"Surround them," he said. "By myself.

Lindsay Buroker

#10. To steal book seems like stealing the soul out of someone.

James Oliver Curwood

#11. Why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

Oliver James

#12. The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.

James Oliver

#13. Open my eyes that I may see Wonderful things from Your law. (Psalm 119:15-18)

Kenneth D. Boa

#14. In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.

James Oliver Curwood

#15. James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

Simon Newcomb

#16. Neurosis is the rule, not the exception', and grasping this can help us to see that we are not alone. It is also the starting point for understanding what went wrong and learning that we have a choice: we can simply re-enact the past, or we can rewrite the script.

Oliver James

#17. I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

Oliver James

#18. Will you never understand that I am incorrigible?

Charles Dickens

#19. Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Estelle

#20. The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war. Now is the time for war. I cannot wait to say it is now a time for peace." - MAJ James Brisson, Chaplain, 1-160th SOAR, 19 October 2001, Afghanistan

Oliver North

#21. Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.

James Oliver Curwood

#22. The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

James Oliver Curwood

#23. Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape."
Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery

Kelly Oliver

#24. Make me understand."

Baltsaros pressed his lips together and shook his head once.

"Jon... You can't understand.

Bey Deckard

#25. Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.

Oliver James

#26. every man's admirable qualities (kindness, charm, intelligence, cute butt--you name it) had an evil twin waiting in the shadows to bite her in the ass when she'd least expected it. It hadn't taken a Ph.D. in philosophy to teach Jessica James that virtue was just the flip side of vice. A

Kelly Oliver

#27. Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives

Oliver James

#28. There was freedom of speech in this era," James Oliver reminds the gentle reader, "so long as you were prepared to pay for it at the end of a rope.

James A. Oliver

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