Oliver Tate Quotes

#1. Most people think of themselves as individuals, that there's no one on the planet like them. This thought motivates them to get out of bed, eat food and walk around like nothing's wrong. My name is Oliver Tate.

Joe Dunthorne

#2. It's for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn't go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can't shake the persistent, needling feeling that I've forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever.

Lauren Oliver

#3. When I am very sad, I tend towards symbolism.

Joe Dunthorne

#4. Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#5. You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.

Dan Hill

#6. Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

R.C. Sproul

#7. I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.

Joe Dunthorne

#8. All I can think is: I need air. The rest of my thoughts are a blur of radio static and fluorescent lights and lab coats and steel tables and surgical knives

Lauren Oliver

#9. There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They won't make us happier.

Frederick Lenz

#10. To create a State and give it the power of life and death does not solve the problem of human evil. It merely transforms the shallow desire for easy property to the bottomless lust for political power.

Stefan Molyneux

#11. As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely, the silence that follows seems just as loud.

Lauren Oliver

#12. In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.

David Rasche

#13. We are similar. I miss you and you miss my call.

Suman Pokhrel

#14. This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

Richard Siken

#15. I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

Lawrence Kasdan

#16. The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

Herbert Marcuse

#17. Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

Bobby Jindal

#18. A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

Herman Melville

#19. Exercise II.
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:
Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple.

Joe Dunthorne

#20. It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.

Ethan Hawke

#21. To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

Isaac Asimov