Oosterhuis So Amazing Quotes

#1. Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

Regina Brett

#4. I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

Sarah Silverman

#5. Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle ...

Shan Sa

#6. I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

Boris Johnson

#7. I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

Tom Selleck

#8. I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

Tom Hodgkinson

#9. I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.

Hanya Yanagihara

#10. Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

Honore De Balzac

#11. "Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

Charles Dickens

#12. You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.

Vince Vaughn