Obislim Quotes & Sayings

Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent. — Mark Twain

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl. — Truth Devour

I know you're meant for me. I know you're the other half of my soul. We are meant to be together. - Avery Adams — Kindle Alexander

The strength of love is beyond measure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

than life itself. Then Christ said: 'I will show you a simpler way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law. — Paulo Coelho

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.
(pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America") — Wendell Berry

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it. — Jim Caviezel

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. — Alan Coren

You are a complete asshole, you know that?"
"I've been called worse," he said, helping me off the stool. — Jamie McGuire

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. — Kamala Harris

There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture. — Martin Jacques

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man. — Dorothy Dix

A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placebos were so effective. His experiment was brutally straightforward: he gave college students electric shocks while they were stuck in an fMRI machine. (The subjects were well compensated, at least by undergraduate standards.) — Jonah Lehrer