Quotes About Oleanders

#1. The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.

Janet Fitch

#2. Have you heard the old adage advising to always grow oleanders at your back door? Nicci asked.

Terry Goodkind

#3. Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it's all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you'll head for hell!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Winston Churchill

#5. The process of thinking itself requires us to view the universe in the direction of entropy, since an abstraction always involves information loss, since symbols 'abstract' complexity from observed objects.

John C. Wright

#6. So much for youthful idealism.

Ian McEwan

#7. What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.

Michael Schiavo

#8. How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Fred MacMurray

#9. If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.

Michael Caine

#10. So, I think there's a danger that good stuff can fall by the wayside if it doesn't conform to formula. But I think it comes down to money and they just don't know where it's going if they haven't got any precedent.

Colin Firth

#11. In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Nostradamus

#12. This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

Janet Finch

#13. If you brave enough to live it, the least I can do is listen.

Cynthia Bond