Lignes Obliques Quotes

#1. Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

Bill Maris

#2. Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you're not doing it right.

Iain M. Banks

#3. His tall, lanky body had the wrinkles of sleep, and he smelled like cotton and dreams.

Rebecca Wells

#4. When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#5. My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Dilma Rousseff

#6. To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.

James Madison

#7. I'm getting better every day in every way.

Joel Osteen

#8. President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice.

Michael Crapo

#9. When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Iain Duncan Smith

#10. If he ever does do himself in, I'm betting it'll be something that involves large explosions. And lots of innocent bystanders, probably.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#11. My heart stirring this way and that like so much hot soup,

Helen Oyeyemi

#12. I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me.

John Polson

#13. However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.

Rumi

#15. If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Gloria Steinem