Quotes By Popular Topics: [O]
Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - ...
The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the ...
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life ...
I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like ...
Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see ...
If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist ...
Orthodox Jews often ask you: "Are you an Israeli first, or a Jew?" I see no difference between the two. After all, I'm also simultaneously ...
Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just ...
I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our ...
Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. ...
I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.
No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...
Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in ...
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst ...
Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal ...
People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that ...
You get up morning; the whole day is ahead of you! You must know that your day is full of endless possibilities, of endless dangers, ...
It was basically a legal version of the sheriff standing out in front of the saloon in the Old West and saying, 'Let's form a ...
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring ...
I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion ...
It's morning when I go to sleepIn the distant dawn a church bell ringsAnother day is coming onA baby's born, an old man diesSomewhere young ...
Every good rowing coach, in his own way, imparts to his men the kind of self-discipline required to achieve the ultimate from mind, heart, and ...
Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me ...
I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess ...
I had taken this time to fall in love instead - inn love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt inn death - ...
No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.
I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.
Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.[Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ...
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.[Lat., Pluris ...
You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun ...
The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.
People not onlynotice feature correlations, but they can deduce reasons for them based on their knowledge of the way the world works" (Medin and Wattenmaker ...
Our parents' death broke his sense of wonder. My left-brained brother, who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research." The words were out of Laurel's mouth before she realized how bad they sounded. ...
I don't know what to do," Hijiri cried, touching her oily hair. "I've always looked like this. Why can't someone love me like this?"Femke set ...
Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally ...
And this do I say also to the o'erthrowers of statues: It is certainly the greatest folly to throw salt into the sea, and statues ...
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is ... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather ...
I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.
There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated ...
Instinct is ourguide; a guide which leads to our fall.
The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to ...
But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer ...
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.
The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God ...
You're not getting in anything, so between us it's going to be outcest, and that's just another word for friendship. - Jocelyn Lawson
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose ...
She could not leave him hanging like this. "If you were hurt, I need to know." It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.
[B]ooks, which can be consulted at any time, questioned again and again, and read into scraps, cannot be rivaled as a language-learning tool.
OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to ...
Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
Sophie," he said again and pushed me hard enough to knock me out of my seat and onto the floor. Dang shifter reflexes. Weren't they ...
Hey, er ... " said Zaphod, "what's your name?"The man looked at them doubtfully."I don't know. Why, do you think I should have one? It ...
Do you know what a magical kingdom is in your ear? A fairy cave leads to an Ali Baba doorway, beyond which the bony little ...
Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
Those mountains to the right," Waxillium said, pointing. "Those are some taller peaks than the ones we've been passing.""Yah!" Allik said. "Good eye, O Observan ...
Get a Brazilian wax. It makes sex better, orgasmwise.
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the ...
I use this brand called Ouidad; they're great. Not Your Mother's is another one. Garnier Fructis. I use a bunch of stuff. Literally, I just ...
Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with ...
This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will ...
The Old Spice ads - women love it. The guys find it annoying. It always causes a great conversation. And it makes it more fun. ...
The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of ...
When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and ...
Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.
The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would ...
I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the ...
Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. ...
He looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course ...
I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships ...
You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in ...
Life is a difficult thing to understand. It makes us too much happy and suddenly takes away the happiness. But we should smile in every ...
You have to be in tune with your body and know when your body is saying, 'That's enough, you're done for the day.' If you ...
Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its ...
It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you ...
A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
That's exactly the good thing about the Injun lifeyou don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'which in my opinionis a ...
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on ...
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Someone was always leavingand never coming back.The wooden houses wait like old wivesalong this road; they are everywhere,abandoned, leaning, turning gray.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
But no matter what their friends told them, they would always know what really happened. They just kept driving faster, and outran the rain.
Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.
If we have a very big problem to deal with, it is the problem of realism, because we are weaker than our emotions.
You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at ...
How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not ...
Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo
The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to ...
It is said that in science the greatest changes come about when some researcher says "Hmmm. That's odd." The same can be said for relationships: ...
A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told.