Oscar W. Firkins Quotes

#1. Positive thinking,' he would say, 'is also very important.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. Me, I'm a bloody tissue sample dried on a bare mattress in my room at the Paper Street Soap Company.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Sometimes thing are too good to be true.

Theodora

#5. Trust one who has tried.

Virgil

#6. God is a creator, not a law giver.

Norman Mailer

#7. He walked out with the inner lightness of an author who has delivered. He wore a green tweed with flap pockets, cast into the river at Rosnaree, began his heart attack, and entered the Afterlife just after his fly was taken.

Niall Williams

#8. In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

Horace

#9. Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

Oscar W. Firkins

#10. The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

Oscar W. Firkins

#11. By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Donald Cram

#12. The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

Oscar W. Firkins

#13. Why should their liberty than ours be more?

William Shakespeare

#14. If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Oscar W. Firkins

#15. All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Oscar W. Firkins

#16. Hades, Hera, and Hestia!" Flynn curses, pointing up.
"What in the Underworld is that?"
"A She-Dragon." Everyone turns to me, and as much as I love having four handsome men gape at me in stupefaction, right now, I could do without.

Amanda Bouchet

#17. That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

Byron Katie

#18. I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

Bill Parcells