Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout Quotes

#1. People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Patricia Briggs

#2. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Jane Austen

#3. Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Kenneth L. Pike

#4. I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

Sting

#5. It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

Slavoj Zizek

#6. Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Osho

#7. We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

Mary Roach

#8. Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.

Barack Obama

#9. Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic
you were made to feel guilty about everything

Elizabeth Strout

#10. He that disobeys God, rejects his reign; and so God views it

John L. Dagg

#11. The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Theodore Roosevelt