Oppressively Quotes

#1. The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

Ronald Reagan

#2. Unlike the close-knit, DIY queer scene you were once at the center of in San Francisco, the queer scene in LA can feel like everything else in LA: partitioned by traffic and freeways, oppressively cliquish and bewilderingly diffuse at the same time, hard to fathom, to see.

Maggie Nelson

#3. I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

Joss Whedon

#4. I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

Albert Einstein

#5. Steamy day, and though the windows of the oval study were open, the room was oppressively hot. You know Captain Henry, of course, Admiral? His boy's just gotten his wings at Pensacola.

Herman Wouk

#6. When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Regina Spektor

#7. For the Romans, gravitas denoted a man's metaphorical "heaviness" - a strength of purpose, sense of authority, depth of character, and commitment to the task at hand that together formed a structure sturdy enough to bear the weight of his significant responsibilities

Brett McKay

#8. FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#9. I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Rock Hudson

#10. Angels can't enter hell unless a demon holds open the door, and demons can't enter heaven without an angel's say-so.

J. Michael Straczynski

#11. To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

Liezi