Obleaks Quotes & Sayings

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died. — Rod Carew

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments. — Randal Cremer

What's more, a lot of people who harbor an intolerance for complexity see it not as a character flaw but a cognitive virtue. That's because they've fallen into the trap of believing that complicated ideas ("complicated" now constituting anything that requires reading, watching or listening to in its entirety) are the purview of the "elite. — Meghan Daum

Hearts Live By Being Wounded — Oscar Wilde

I stopped caring what people thought. — Namie Amuro

Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you. — T.A. Barron

And thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless. — J.M. Barrie

One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it. — Alison Moyet

It is the discrepancy between the promise implicit in his touch and his daily interactions with her that generates so much confusion and ambivalence for Martha.
from Lo Siento — Marcy Sheiner

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail. — Elsa Barker

For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order. — Alan Brinkley

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge. — Bruce Lee

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own. — Charles Dickens

I leave love notes all around the house. They're on your pillow, in the fridge, in your sock drawer, but you don't see them. They say I love you. They say You can love me without fear. — Richard Jay Goldstein