Oberalp Group Quotes & Sayings

The river is one of my favorite metaphors, the symbol of the great flow of Life Itself. The river begins at Source, and returns to Source, unerringly. This happens every single time, without exception. We are no different. — Jeffrey R. Anderson

Demons were all about ego, which meant that most demons had some kind of title. I think it made them feel better about their tiny ... pitchforks. — E.J. Stevens

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it. — Mary Balogh

It has been a Prosy day for us, but for some people it has been a wonderful day. Someone was rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today- a great poem written- or a great man born. And some heart has been broken, Phil. — L.M. Montgomery

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut. — Florence Nightingale

I find a preacher of the Gospel profaning the beautiful and prophetic ejaculation, commonly called "Nunc dimittis," made on the first presentation of our Saviour in the temple, and applying it, with an inhuman and unnatural rapture, to the most horrid, atrocious, and afflicting spectacle that perhaps ever was exhibited to the pity and indignation of mankind. This "leading in triumph," a thing in its best form unmanly and irreligious, which fills our preacher with such unhallowed transports, must shock, I believe, the moral taste of every well-born mind. Several English were the stupefied and indignant spectators of that triumph. It was (unless we have been strangely deceived) a spectacle more resembling a procession of American savages entering into Onondaga after some of their murders called victories, — Edmund Burke

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. — Charles Caleb Colton

I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win. — Larry Dixon

A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying. — Michael Monroe

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit. — Rick Santorum