Octette Quotes

#1. For there is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation.

Oliver Sacks

#2. A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning

Marvin Amazon

#4. Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.

Philip Pullman

#5. See how firmly Alexei Fyodorovich endures his misfortune.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.

Michael Gove

#7. Your generation has no sense of responsibility to a group, a calling higher than your own. You treat random friends like family and family like strangers. You want to dither your life away, pursuing one pleasure after another. That is not a path; that is a waste of life.

Liz Braswell

#8. Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Lord Dunsany

#9. You must be willing to play with Failure before you reach Success.-RVM

R.v.m.

#10. One still works, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.

Randy Pausch

#12. Rose.It was her. Not some copy, not some actress. I knew it with every beat of my frantic heart. Then terror filled her eyes.

"Evelyn," she gasped. "He's in here - "

A hand appeared out of the shadows and clamped over her mouth. And she vanished.

Tarun Shanker