Crispen Oglebay Quotes & Sayings

Spun sugar clouds and extraterrestrial crystal vintage T-birds flying through space, morning-glory girls swinging from star-hung vines in cosmic gardens. — Francesca Lia Block

No. It's choice. Every time, no matter what happens, I would choose you. Even if we had to repeat this for eternity, I would choose you, every time. — Brandon R. Chinn

A government should not mobilize an army out of anger, military leaders should not provoke war out of wrath. Act when it is beneficial to do so, desist if not. Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life. — Sun Tzu

Then the doctor broke my nose and I cried like a baby — James Patterson

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own. — William Cowper

Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity. — Thomas Sankara

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason. — Peter Morgan

In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has never been and never will be, nor is it now, what is known as a straight line, never, never, to put it strongly and emphatically in response to any doubts, to silence them once and for all. — Jose Saramago

When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad. — Park Chan-wook

Fingers you, claws me, crossed hoping Dad sees it that way. — Jazz Feylynn

Dear life, Let me love you. — Debasish Mridha

I watch him come, I watch him, and I don't move until he's almost upon me, and then I swing. I jam the vicious twist of the corkscrew into his neck. — Paula Hawkins

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age. — Rosemary M. Wixom

[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears responsibility to some degree for maintaining these protocols of intolerance, which could not be kept in place if every single one of us did not play our part. From bringing up children 'appropriately', to lovingly correcting or punishing their inappropriate behaviour, to making sure we never breach the protocols ourselves, to staring or sniggering at people who look different, to coercive psychiatric and medical intervention, to emotional blackmail, to physical violence-it's a range of slippages all the way that we seldom recognize. — Nivedita Menon

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting. — Sri Aurobindo