Lisee Oken Quotes

#1. Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

John Connolly

#2. The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

Mark Zandi

#3. Some people look at a glass and see it as half-full. Others look at a glass and call it a dragon.

Jon Stewart

#4. You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. I don't hear anything."
"Exactly. That's what happens when you *stop talking*.

Marissa Meyer

#6. Time ... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.

Walter Bradford Cannon

#7. Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Peter Sotos

#8. You'll wake up on Easter morning, And you'll know that he was there, When you find those choc'late bunnies, That he's hiding ev'rywhere.

Gene Autry

#9. I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Polly Adler

#10. The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Seneca The Younger

#11. Then there was the puzzle of why the sun came out during the day, instead of at night when the light would come in useful.

Terry Pratchett

#12. I can even see that little flourish he often does with his hand. The one that looks like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, only the rabbit is your dignity and the hat is him slowly strangling it to death in front of you. Certainly

Charlotte Stein

#13. Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American.

Marge Piercy

#14. I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Bertrand Russell

#15. If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

Louise L. Hay