Octavians Rise Quotes

#1. So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.

Ann Aguirre

#3. There was something capricious about God. How could one expect perfect submission from those who are imperfect? How could one create desire and then expect everyone to pull the plug on it? And if God were capricious, then God was imperfect. If God were imperfect, God was not God.

Jerry Pinto

#4. I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like ... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Drew Barrymore

#5. You're a good date," he said.
"You thought of it as a date?"
He nodded. "From the beginning.

Robyn Carr

#6. Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal.

Robert A. Caro

#7. Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells ...

Charles Dickens