Onision Quotes

#1. Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.

Orson Scott Card

#2. I would be more optimistic but I find doing so would be like walking into a room with no windows and turning out the light. If

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#3. What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?

Leo Tolstoy

#4. It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

Rick Riordan

#5. It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

T. S. Eliot

#6. Control the coinage and the courts - let the rabble have the rest.

Frank Herbert

#7. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#8. My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

August Wilson

#9. Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

Studs Terkel

#10. There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Colin Powell

#11. counter-cultural. We're so used to having more than enough that many of us have never truly learned what it is to trust God to provide what we need. Yet sometimes God will lead us to this place to teach us to trust Him, to rely on His provision and to experience the wonder of His love.

Jennifer Carter

#12. The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

Robin Trower

#13. I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!

Manolo Blahnik

#14. I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#15. It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

John Dryden