Offing Quotes

#1. My parents ... were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

Richard Ford

#2. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Joseph Conrad

#3. And if she didn't know already that she liked that stupid offing Asian kid, she knew it now

Rainbow Rowell

#4. A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

Terence McKenna

#5. I would like to show you how to love as I love; and this sentiment alone would raise you above your kind. But human pride aspires to other enjoyments; its natural disquiet prevents it from laying hold of any happiness if it cannot envisage a greater one in the offing.

Jacques Cazotte

#6. The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

Angela Carter

#7. ( ... ) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)

Jess Walter

#8. I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

George M. Humphrey

#9. Hanging out with Sam or any two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one new way after another of offing themselves - piss in an electric socket, lick a pit bull's nose, chase an ice cream truck into traffic - and your job as a parent is to step in before it happens.

Michael J. Fox

#10. Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded

Joseph Conrad

#11. You're the one saying how vital offing these kids and grabbing their brat is to the war effort, right? Well, I'm telling you I need way more cash to do it right, so
Lying.
How have you not murdered that creature by now?
Oh, I've tried.

Brian K. Vaughan

#12. This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.

Joseph Conrad

#13. There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

David W. Orr

#14. My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

Keariene Muizz

#15. I'm not old-fashioned.

Cher

#16. Here's how you know that you're really drunk: when you get into a taxi cab and you think the fare is the time.

Dane Cook

#17. I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

Mark Morris

#18. When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?

G.K. Chesterton

#19. And I knew that my only way through this mass of simultaneous future outcomes was to hold tight to the idea that it was possible to get to OK from where we were now. Not assured. Just possible.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#20. The door opened with a crash, and the dark echoed with outlandish orders in that curt, barbaric barking of Germans in command which seems to give vent to a millennial anger.

Primo Levi

#21. We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

Terry Riley

#22. To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Jack Kornfield

#23. To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the mineral kingdom, is the proper object of a THEORY OF THE EARTH.

John Playfair

#24. Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

George Lucas

#25. Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

Charles A. Reich

#26. Papers, books, a laptop, a blackberry, and a half-empty cup of coffee littered its usually pristine walnut surface.

Jo Graham

#27. I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

Dolly Parton