Objurgatory Quotes

#1. Good responded nobly to this tax upon his inventive faculties. Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer's objurgatory powers. For ten minutes he went on in several languages without stopping, and he scarcely ever repeated himself.

H. Rider Haggard

#2. Or perhaps Zeus was just messing with me again - giving me a taste of my old power before yanking it away once more. Remember this, kid? WELL YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!

Rick Riordan

#3. If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

Ozzy Osbourne

#4. How do they manage to go on living? ... By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

Naomi Ragen

#5. You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Raymond E. Feist

#6. Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of those nights where she'd sink her teeth into a topic and keep chewing and chewing at it.

Ari Berk

#7. I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

Lisa Bonet

#8. Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope)

Victor Hugo

#9. Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

Jack London

#10. Pain wears no mask .it makes man humble.

Kishore Bansal

#11. Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

Joseph Nye

#12. when dreams died, the heart grew bitter.

Kim Fielding

#13. People in a connected world are exposed to the stories of strangers through many channels, including face-to-face encounters, interviews in the media, and memoirs and autobiographical accounts.

Steven Pinker