Oertzen 312 Quotes

#1. It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

William H. Seward

#2. Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.

Libba Bray

#3. No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

E.W. Howe

#4. There's a dream in the
space between the hammer and the nail: the dream of
about-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail will
take the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever.

Richard Siken

#5. The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, "I love you", that's a lot. It's a really hard thing because you can never be certain of yourself, but at that particular moment, you feel like that. Its magic

Ville Valo

#6. Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

Moby

#7. I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.

Daniel Barenboim

#8. Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Keep in mind that right and wrong are not matters of opinion. They are principles we must discover and apply. They are laws of biology for intelligent species

Richard J. Maybury

#10. It's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

Michel Foucault

#11. There it is."
And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again.
"The Happiness Machine," he said. "The Happiness Machine.

Ray Bradbury

#12. Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.

Denis Johnson

#13. I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey.

Jim Toomey