Lady Oleanna Quotes & Sayings

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything. — Patricia Briggs

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation? — Robert Kennedy

Whenever we try to be perfect, behind any noble purposes we have lies our desperate need to be accepted. It is this same unexpressed need that most often drives us to take on too much. In trying to be perfect we worked on the quality of our activities: Was that good or clever enough? Did I impress them with how well I did that? In taking on too much, we stress the quantity of what we do: Have I done enough? Perhaps if I do just one more thing they will be compelled to like me. — Duke Robinson

there were the occasional idiots who thought witches poisoned people and worshipped their devil (which was a spectacularly odd concept to me; why would someone from a different religion worship someone else's devil?). — Sally Dubats

It would be so easy to stop getting up. To stop washing. To stop eating. Being alone required such constant effort. — Rachel Joyce

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises. — Sally Ride

Art is competitive. — Robert Duvall

Nothing is guaranteed. — Jenny Han

If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man. — Eddie Albert

Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky ... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework.
"I know magic can be stolen," said Artemis. "Because I stole some myself. — Eoin Colfer