Bielau Oaks Quotes & Sayings

The world is big conspiracy to make you happy. — Santosh Kalwar

When you're fighting a crowd, it's good to shout potentially threatening things like "Crossbows!" or "Fire!" or "Giant Flying Cat!" every once in a while. — Sebastien De Castell

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky - her grand old woods - her fertile fields - her beautiful rivers - her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, - when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing. — Frederick Douglass

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing. — Paulo Coelho

Have I humbled myself to serve others or instead have I been demanding of others? Do I — 5395 Media LLC

Half-Christian, half-Jewish, a 'cathjew nut', — Salman Rushdie

Uri...vinciri...verberari...ferroque necari.
I will endure to be burned... to be bound... to be beaten... and to be killed by the sword. — Lesley Livingston

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between. — Don DeLillo

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. — Brendan Behan

Cupcakes - when you want to watch your weight, but still feel the pride that comes with eating an entire cake. — Dana Gould

When the sky's falling, I take shelter under bullshit. — Scott Lynch