Kalmar Ottawa Quotes & Sayings

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is. — Ben Stein

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit. — Wallace Shawn

I buy when other people are selling. — J. Paul Getty

The easy, gentle, and sloping path ... is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel De Montaigne

People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance. — Marty Rubin

I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person. — Prince Royce

The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our consciousness. Most of us find it difficult to know what we are feeling about anything. In any situation it is almost impossible to know what is really happening to us. This is one of the penalties of being human and having a brain so swarming with interesting suggestions and ideas and self-distrust. — Ted Hughes

It makes no sense," she said, her voice cracking a little. "You and me." "I know that," he said, reaching out and taking her hand, and the feel of his skin on hers nearly knocked the breath right out of her. "Sort of. But sometimes I think ... " "What?" "That maybe it's the only thing that makes sense. — Jennifer E. Smith

The world's now placid, featureless, and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason's obvious. There's nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that's available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges - absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV! — Arthur C. Clarke