Objectionable Organisms Quotes & Sayings

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I shall be the wild park in the midst of the nightmare of perfection, the still, unshakeable dream in the midst of frenzied activity, the random shot on the white billiard table of logic, I shall know neither how to weep nor protest, but I shall be there always in absolute silence to receive and to restore. — Henry Miller

What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all. — Alice Walker

The story can be told without many words. — George Eliot

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. — Milton Friedman

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal. — Ron Chernow

Take a good long look at The Lord's Prayer. It's all 'we', 'us' and 'our'. There is no 'me', 'I' or 'mine' anywhere. — Anne Hamilton

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet. — Muhammad Ali

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed. — Kathie Lee Gifford

The ferret didn't matter. Because there was something about Mick that wasn't a fake anything. And Winnie herself felt more real somehow, running around, looking for the little animal that meant so much to him. — Judith Ivory

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth. — T. J. Stiles

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space. — Tad Williams

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. — Nina Fedoroff

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying ... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke ... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference! — Eric Thomas