Top 100 Olaf's Quotes
#1. What are your names?"
"You know our names," Violet said curtly, a word which here means "tired of Count Olaf's nonsense." "That wig and that lipstick don't fool us any more than your pale-brown dress and sensible beige shoes. You're Count Olaf.
Lemony Snicket
#2. Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.
Lemony Snicket
#3. Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults.
Lemony Snicket
#4. But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"
Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it.
Olaf Stapledon
#5. The Chinese, taking off his air-helmet, uncoiled his pigtail with a certain emphasis, stripped off his heavy coverings, and revealed a sky-blue silk pyjama suit, embroidered with golden dragons.
Olaf Stapledon
#6. A German Voice, Hans-Olaf Henkel, Calls for Euro's Abolition
Anonymous
#7. Unless he was one of the furiously successful minority, he was apt to be haunted by moments of brooding, too formless to be called meditation, and of yearning, too blind to be called desire.
Olaf Stapledon
#8. Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said.
Not with you around," Violet agreed.
I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.
Lemony Snicket
#9. In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
Olaf Stapledon
#10. I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.
Olaf Stapledon
#11. To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident ... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
Olaf Stapledon
#12. Strange that in my remoteness I seemed to feel, as never before, the vital presence of Earth as of a creature alive but tranced and obscurely yearning to wake.
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#13. So you're a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.
Lemony Snicket
#14. Those who achieved power were satisfied so long as they could merely retain it, and advertise it uncritically in the conventionally self-assertive manners.
Olaf Stapledon
#15. It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.
Lemony Snicket
#16. Bvalltu, for such approximately was the philosopher's name, the "11" being pronounced more or less as in 27 Welsh, Bvalltu effected a "cure" by merely inviting
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#17. So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.
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#18. I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down.
Nancy Farmer
#20. That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
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#21. Count Olaf: You should have given up a long time ago, orphans. I triumphed the moment you lost your family.
Violet: We didn't lose our family. Only our parents.
Lemony Snicket
#22. Hands down, this is the best day of my life," Olaf says as he begins to drip into a puddle, "and quite possibly the last.
Elise Allen
#23. The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.
Terry Pratchett
#24. It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit ... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.
Olaf Stapledon
#25. In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.
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#26. An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.
Olaf Tyaransen
#27. There is some shit I shall not eat,
and I will not kiss your fucking flag!
E. E. Cummings
#28. I told you," Count Olaf said weakly. "I told you I'd do that one last time.
Lemony Snicket
#29. But the very success which had intoxicated them rendered them also too complacent to learn from less prosperous competitors.
Olaf Stapledon
#30. No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
Olaf Stapledon
#31. For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.
Olaf Stapledon
#32. Distrust, not merely the old distrust of nation for nation, but a devastating distrust of human nature, gripped men like the dread of insanity.
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#33. Once more I struck out into the ocean of space, heading for another near star. Once more I was disappointed.
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#35. Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
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#36. Hee hee hee!" Nero said. "You children are like three clowns!"
"Ho ho ho!" Count Olaf said.
"Ha ha ha!" Violet said, who was beginning to feel queasy from faking all this laughter.
Lemony Snicket
#37. Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
Olaf Stapledon
#38. How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?
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#39. The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
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#40. How should the little creatures, the awakened worlds, reach out to knowledge of the whole cosmos, and of the divine? Instead they must play their own part in the drama, and appreciate their own tragic end with godlike detachment and relish.
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#41. With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous.
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#42. Some people are worth melting for
Olaf
#43. Men with sound eyes need not concern themselves with the arguments of blind men to prove that seeing cannot occur.
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#44. Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn't nearby.
Lemony Snicket
#45. Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?
Lemony Snicket
#46. Liquid nitrogen," said Olaf. "Try not to shoot them." "Really cold?" "Really explosive.
Peter Clines
#47. I'll take him to the hospital " Bernardo said "but what do we put on the paperwork "
"Tell them it was a lover's quarrel " Olaf said.
"Over my dead body " I said.
"Eventually " he said.
"Don't be a sick fuck Olaf " I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#48. Socrates woke to the ideal of dispassionate intelligence, Jesus to the ideal of passionate yet self-oblivious worship. Socrates urged intellectual integrity, Jesus integrity of will. Each, of course, though starting with a different emphasis, involved the other.
Olaf Stapledon
#49. My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.
Olaf Stapledon
#50. The true goal of human activity was the creation of a world-wide community of awakened and intelligently creative persons, related by mutual insight and respect, and by the common task of fulfilling the potentiality of the human spirit on earth.
Olaf Stapledon
#51. Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#52. Modules of brain networks define communities of structurally and functionally related areas, but they do not represent or support discrete mental faculties.
Olaf Sporns
#53. As for Kristoff, well, maybe Olaf was right. Maybe Kristoff does truly love me. I think I truly love him. At least, I think I could truly love him. We only met a couple of days ago. I don't want to think about true love yet.
Elise Allen
#54. In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, and that all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.
Olaf Stapledon
#56. It was amazing, she thought, how everything having to do with Count Olaf was frightening.
Lemony Snicket
#57. I do," Olaf says. "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.
Elise Allen
#58. Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#59. I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.
Olaf Stapledon
#60. The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.
Olaf Stapledon
#61. It pain me to tell you that once again Count Olaf would appear with yet another disgusting scheme, and that Mr. Poe would once again fail to do anything even remotely helpful.
Lemony Snicket
#62. So great was the mass of information forced upon the student, that he had no time to think of the mutual implications of the various branches of his knowledge.
Olaf Stapledon
#63. Time after time he[Count Olaf] had come very close to succeeding, and time after time the Baudelaire orphans had revealed his plan, and time after time he had escaped-and all Mr. Poe had ever done was cough.
Lemony Snicket
#64. Very soon the heavens presented an extraordinary appearance, for all the stars directly behind me were now deep red, while those directly ahead were violet. Rubies lay behind me, amethysts ahead of me.
Olaf Stapledon
#65. Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.
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#66. The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.
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#67. A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners.
Olaf Stapledon
#68. The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.
Olaf Stapledon
#69. They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.
Olaf Stapledon
#70. Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
Peter Agre
#71. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
Olaf Stapledon
#72. It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.
Olaf Stapledon
#73. I'll tell you why I'm Shirley," Count Olaf said. "I'm Shirley because I would like to be called Shirley, and it is impolite not to do so.
Lemony Snicket
#74. The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.
Olaf Stapledon
#75. Had God,then,peopled the whole universe with our kind?Did he perhaps in very truth make us in his image?It was incredible.To ask such questions proved that I had lost mental balance.
Olaf Stapledon
#76. Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#77. Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.
Olaf Stapledon
#78. If one could know whether among that glittering host there were here and there other spirit-inhabited grains of rock and metal, whether man's blundering search for wisdom and for love was a sole and insignificant tremor, or part of a universal movement!
Olaf Stapledon
#79. Prick the bubble of thought at any point," it was said, "and you shatter the whole of it. And since thought is one of the necessities of human life, it must be preserved." Natural
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#82. We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.
Olaf Stapledon
#83. Humanity also suffered; though, save in the regions near the seat of war, it was in general only the children and the old people who suffered greatly.
Olaf Stapledon
#84. Count Olaf was so obsessed with getting his filthy hands on the money that he hatched a devious plan that gives me nightmares to this day.
Lemony Snicket
#85. We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.'Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the more lovely the loving.
Olaf Stapledon
#86. We of today must conceive our relation to the rest of the universe as best we can; and even if our images must seem fantastic to future men, they may none the less serve their purpose today.
Olaf Stapledon
#87. My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.
Olaf Stapledon
#88. In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.
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#89. The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
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#90. Why did you make only one of me? It's going to be lonely being me.
Olaf Stapledon
#91. Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else
Lemony Snicket
#92. He was sitting in front of the kitchen fire, and after Elizabeth's taunt he cocked up a hind leg and carefully, ostentatiously, groomed his private parts, a habit which he often used with great effect to annoy his women folk.
Olaf Stapledon
#93. In that instant when I had seen ... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos ...
Olaf Stapledon
#94. We should not for a moment consider even our best-established knowledge of existence as true. It is awareness only of the colors that our own vision paints on the film of one bubble in one strand of foam on the ocean of being.
Olaf Stapledon
#95. For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.
Olaf Stapledon
#96. Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.
Lemony Snicket
#97. Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!
Lemony Snicket
#99. Mr. Poe opened his mouth to say something, but erupted into a brief fit of coughing. "I have made arrangements," he said finally, "for you to be raised by a distant relative of yours who lives on the other side of town. His name is Count Olaf.
Lemony Snicket
#100. Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!
Olaf Stapledon
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