Oberbecken Quotes & Sayings

There were three boys in the doorway, backlit by the evening sun as Neeve had been so many weeks ago. Three sets of shoulders: one square, one built, one wiry.
"Sorry that I'm late," said the boy in front, with the square shoulders. The scent of mint rolled in with him, just as it had in the churchyard. "Will it be a problem?"
Blue knew that voice.
She reached for the railing of the stairs to keep her balance as President Cell Phone stepped into the hallway.
Oh no. Not him. All this time she'd been wondering how Gansey might die and it turned out she was going to strangle him. — Maggie Stiefvater

Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth. — Ernest Hollings

The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least. — Frank Fools Crow

You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do. — Diane Kruger

I said I didn't respect religion ... and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer ... So I don't respect our religions either. But I do believe it is a clash of civilizations, absolutely, between the Islamic world and the Western world. It has been going on for 1,000 years. — Bill Maher

I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother. — Naomi Watts

Love is repaid by love alone! — Mother Teresa

I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session. — Irvin D. Yalom

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people. — Abraham Lincoln

MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices. — Gary Weiss

For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn't follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up. — Patricia Cornwell

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. — Shirley Jackson

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality. — Erich Von Stroheim

Procrastination is the enemy of action! — John Di Lemme