Oscillated Quotes

#1. Having oscillated all his life between the torments of a superficial loitering and the horrors of disinterested endeavour, he finds himself at last in a situation where to do nothing exclusively would be an act of the highest value, and significance.

Samuel Beckett

#2. Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.

Gregory Benford

#3. The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

Simone Weil

#4. A survey has shown that the average man has had sex in a car 15 times. Something to keep in mind next time you're looking for a used car.

Jay Leno

#5. Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Thomas F. Wilson

#6. You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

Andy Summers

#7. The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.

Vasily Grossman

#8. The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

Demetri Martin

#9. Can I change the world? Only my piece of it.

Michelle Templet

#10. Leaving?" she squeaked, bemused, as Max opened her wardrobe. "You're abducting me?"
"Eloping. Eloping involves hurried packing. Abducting involves masked men and a burlap sack.

Kate Noble

#11. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun Tzu

#12. Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

Thomas King

#13. Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

Brandon Sanderson

#14. You are the only thing I've ever needed. The only treasure that matters.
- Seamus Tierney

Libby Bishop