Top 18 Oscar W. Firkins Quotes

#1. 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

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

Bill Parcells

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. 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

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#6. 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

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

William Shakespeare

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#8. 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

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#9. 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

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

Terry Pratchett

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#11. 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

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#12. 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

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#13. 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

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

Norman Mailer

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#15. Trust one who has tried.

Virgil

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

Theodora

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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#18. 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

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