Olenska Quotes

#1. But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of a conscious power. (Newland Archer of Countess Olenska)

Edith Wharton

#2. Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Edith Wharton

#3. Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

Edith Wharton

#4. Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

William DeWitt Hyde

#5. Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Euripides

#6. Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!

Edith Wharton

#7. However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

John Lubbock

#8. If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Mother Teresa

#9. No one can make you angry! No one can make you mad! You get to choose.

David W. Earle

#10. I'm seven layers of fucked up with a side of batshit crazy.

K.A. Tucker

#11. Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with individual patients. It wasn't trying to collect data from large groups of people who have been analyzed.

Eric Kandel

#12. What are memories but dreams of a better past.

Robert Breault

#13. Who's the boss?

TONY DANZA, YOU PRICK!

Patrick Wensink

#14. Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Deb Caletti

#15. Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

Judy Grahn

#16. I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

Anton Corbijn

#17. Can't repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, "the day of our life," Randall Jarrell called it.

Adam Gopnik

#18. Tomorrow's a hunting day," I say.
"I won't be much of a help with that," Peeta says. "I've never hunted before."
"I'll kill and you cook," I say. "And you can always gather."
"I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there," says Peeta.

Suzanne Collins

#19. The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Michael Fassbender