Olmsted Quotes

#1. It means there are no obstacles which our Savior's love cannot overcome, and that to him, mountains of difficulty are as easy as an asphalt road!

Hannah Hurnard

#2. The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

Matthew Quick

#3. For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

H.L. Mencken

#4. The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

J Mascis

#6. It seemed like everything was moving too fast for me to do anything about it

James Ponti

#7. The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

Bette Midler

#8. There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

Teju Cole

#10. What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

Cao Cao

#11. at Birkenhead, near Liverpool, designed and built the world's first municipal park. This park so captivated the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted that he modeled Central Park in New York on it.

Bill Bryson

#12. The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

Edward Bernays

#13. He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

Rudyard Kipling

#14. She's the kind of person who can lick everything but a stamp.

Mark Olmsted

#15. This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Frederick Law Olmsted

#16. If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."

Epictetus

#17. With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

Frederick Law Olmsted

#18. Too bad the guards are looking for irony. It's everywhere in here.

Mark Olmsted

#19. Fred Olmsted sat at the edge of the stagecoach seat, chattering to his father about their trip. How exciting to see the towns and forests of western New York! Suddenly, Fred stopped talking. That roar in the distance could only be one thing. Niagara Falls!

Julie Dunlap

#20. I wake up feeling like I spent the last three days in a massage parlor. My muscles are relaxed, and I feel refreshed, like I could climb Mount Everest or build an ark or cure the world of minivans.

Victoria Scott

#21. The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

#22. Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

Jill Scott