O Absalom Quotes

#1. O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man's mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

Orson Scott Card

#2. She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to him. 'O Absalom, my Absalom! Come, come, we will not entertain such a thought. God himself would not urge it upon a mother.

Theodore Dreiser

#3. was just dying to speak with him.

Absalom Milton

#4. When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

Jesmyn Ward

#5. Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Andrew Jackson

#6. Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

David Clement-Davies

#7. There are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#8. There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Gore Vidal

#9. Actually last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little angora crop top told me he was gay a sex addict a narcotic addict a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo.

Helen Fielding

#10. It was a mansion of ghosts and monsters, with ghouls in the shadows and demons scuttling behind the wainscotting.

Alastair Reynolds

#11. One whose mind is turned inwards is ever in bliss

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#12. I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

Jerry Saltz

#13. 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.

Ben Lovett

#14. Perception begins with what is experienced, rather than beginning with what is expected; the model is to "see and understand" rather than "understand and see.

Paul Dourish

#15. Ah, Mr Compson said, Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?

William Faulkner

#16. Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Nathaniel Branden

#17. You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

Al Yankovic

#18. I have never seen the Lord God. But I have seen Absalom alive in the tree.

William H Gass

#19. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

Orrin Woodward

#20. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Michael Botticelli