Fleecing Olympus Quotes & Sayings

My prayer is to leave a mark of hope and love in every corner of the universe. — Euginia Herlihy

It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it. — Elmore Leonard

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. — Alan Watts

I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own. — Leighton Meester

Author complains about the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present. — George F. Will

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better. — Jean De La Bruyere

I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink. — Mathias Dopfner

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. — George MacDonald

Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the real. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really looked almost wild. — Jane Austen

A number of ethical, aesthetic, psychiatric or forensic classfications that are produced by the "institutional sciences",not to mention those produced and inculcated by the educational system, are similarly subordinated to social functions, although they derive their specific efficacy from their apparent neutrality. They are produced in accordance with the specific logic, and in the specific language, of relatively autonomous fields, and they combine a real dependence on the classificatory schemes of the dominant habitus (and ultimately on the social structures of which these are the product) with an apparent independence. — Pierre Bourdieu

I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself. — Rose Wilder Lane

Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center. — Bernie Sanders

The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys. — Confucius

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection. — Leah Busque