Oary Footed Quotes

#1. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.

George Eliot

#2. There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against them.

Alan Bradley

#4. I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

Rebecca Ferguson

#5. I think the art world ... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Thomas Kinkade

#6. I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.

Michael Douglas

#7. Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

Frederick Lenz

#8. A light had gone out inside of him, one he hadn't realized had been illuminating everything.

Quil Carter

#9. I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

Ram Kapoor

#10. We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

Ai Weiwei

#11. Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

Roger Stone

#12. Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.

James K. Morrow

#13. I think you should aim for the stars - and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds!

Roxanne McKee

#14. [To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

Beatrice Lillie