Oberanven Quotes & Sayings

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no. — James Russell Lowell

I am coming from an older school, and I feel that you must learn to wait. There is that essay which was about the great notion of sitting on the mountain and waiting for the muses to cross the stream, and give you the symbols that would allow you to create. The word wait seems to me to be terribly important. — Robert Dessaix

We're comfortable. He knows I love him. He can see it in my eyes, like I can in his. Not everything needs to be as you imagine. Passion can be a calm meadow just as much as a hurricane. — Marilyn Grey

When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well. — Kate Bosworth

Listen carefully. If communication is manipulation, sex is all-out war. — Michael R. Fletcher

I'd had more than my share of beautiful today. Tomorrow I'd give some back, restore and replenish the world. — Rachel Hartman

Your kisses lift me higher ... like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love. — Elvis Presley

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. — Sebastian Smee

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property ... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. — Thomas Jefferson

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. — Graham Greene

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian's love must be universal! — Jonathan Edwards

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people. — Gwen Stefani

These be the sort" - she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan - "These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to kings. — Rudyard Kipling

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. — Confucius