Steinkeller Oxford Quotes

#1. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

Joseph Addison

#3. They make a desolation and call it peace.

Agha Shahid Ali

#4. Okay. For one, that damn thing is ugly as all get out, and for two, I just sat there.

Toni Aleo

#5. Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

T.D. Jakes

#6. It is so rare ... to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

Hector Berlioz

#7. Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true - in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have anything at all to do with individuals.

David Brin

#8. Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

William Godwin

#9. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.

Melvin B. Tolson

#10. There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

Paul Scholes

#11. To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

Edmund Phelps

#12. I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

Peter Greenaway