Obediahs Quotes & Sayings

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. — Don Marquis

NOT CAUSING HARM obviously includes not killing or robbing or lying to people. It also includes not being aggressive - not being aggressive with our actions, our speech, or our minds. Learning not to cause harm to ourselves or others is a basic Buddhist teaching on the healing power of nonaggression. Not harming ourselves or others in the beginning, not harming ourselves or others in the middle, and not harming ourselves or others in the end is the basis of enlightened society. — Pema Chodron

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. — Timothy Noah

In England we are sort of very awkward. — Tom Felton

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. — Taylor Swift

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. — Arnold Bennett

The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate. — Timothy Snyder

If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began! — Jack London

Don't try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience - every reader is a different person. — William Zinsser

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max. — Jason Momoa

It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love Audrey Hepburn. I thought she was very classy. — Emily Osment

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me. — David Boreanaz

All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age. — William Godwin

If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control. — Laura Osnes