Quotes About Oran

#1. Oran is exile and Tetuan is imprisonment. And since I am happier in Tetuan than in Oran, that means I prefer jail in my native land to freedom in exile.

Mohamed Choukri

#2. As Camus' reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places - even Oran or Hades.

Robert Zaretsky

#3. In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Albert Camus

#4. It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: Close the window, it's too beautiful.

Albert Camus

#5. Tanks beached at X and Z were to race inland before dawn in a pincer movement to help capture two airfields south of Oran while Operation RESERVIST supposedly secured the port. Infantrymen would also encircle the city, preventing any reinforcements from reaching Oran if the French chose to fight.

Rick Atkinson

#6. Having occupied both sides of the podium, I greatly prefer no podium at all. Just a conversation between reader and author.

Oran Kangas

#7. To 'kill time' is a case of mistaken identity -- you have mistaken the victim for the perp.

Oran Kangas

#8. There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

Ian MacKaye

#9. The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

Bernard Lonergan

#11. Therefore, to maximize your productivity, deliberately focus on precisely one thing at a time.

Oran Kangas

#12. I push a clump of very wet hair out of my face and try to look dignified. It's not like it really matters in the long run, considering I'm in the presence of a boy who is wearing a T-shirt with a dinosaur riding a tricycle screen printed on it. I think that says a lot.

Mara Dabrishus

#13. To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt.

John Ringo

#15. Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem

Oran Kangas

#16. I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Philip Levine

#17. My Epitaph:
THIS is Plan B

Oran Kangas

#18. Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours

Tony Robbins

#19. All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...

Edith Sitwell

#20. For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Arthur Miller

#21. Everything he let go of had claw marks on it.

Louise Penny

#22. As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland ... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

Gerard Butler

#23. To paraphrase Nietzsche:
'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.

Oran Kangas

#24. In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: Multiply entities unnecessarily.

J. Budziszewski

#25. If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.

Stephen Colbert