Peter Oliver Quotes

#1. ("It seemed to be the principle employment of both armies to look at each other with spyglasses," wrote the eminent Loyalist Peter Oliver, former chief justice of the province.)

David McCullough

#2. You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

Peter Oliver

#3. It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

Peter Oliver

#4. Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. A big part of winning is having lots of good luck. And I think a good competitor makes his own luck. That's why he is a winner. Luck to me is lots of determination lots of hard work, faith in myself, and in God.

Lane Frost

#6. The thought is full of comfort that He who has established the boundary lines of our lives has also determined the boundaries of our tribulation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

Hugh Mackay

#8. Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Rachelle Lefevre

#9. The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

Richard Sherman

#10. Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

Peter Oliver

#11. Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen ... One can listen better if one sees the whole.

Bill Drayton

#12. Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

Ashim Shanker

#13. So what did you bring? Lip gloss and a hairbrush?"
Smirking, she unpacked the sandwiches Mort's cook had made for her, along with an ample slice of chocolate cake. "You owe me an apology."
"Omigod, it's a feast! Okay, you're forgiven.

Jana Oliver

#14. Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light ... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Amy Grant

#15. "The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced."

Oliver B. Greene