Obligum Quotes & Sayings

The only known cure for poverty is emancipation of women — Christopher Hitchens

The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way. — Jonathan Nolan

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

Surplus [Money Mindset]: Feeling grateful and ready to share

Members of the surplus group believe they have more than enough. They don't constantly long for more. They display a high level of contentment even if their lifestyle is average - or below. Their purchases match their needs, not their income. And because they feel grateful, they are ready to share. Most joyfully give away more than 10 percent of their gross income. — Brad Hewitt

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. — William Shakespeare

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then. — Ellen Hopkins

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The one thing that is truly monstrous is the idea of another person being unreachable. I think this is what lies behind our fear of people we imagine to be evil: the belief that they are wholly beyond our reach, beyond our appeal and our compassion, because they have alienated themselves completely from the rest of humanity and thereby rendered themselves inhuman ... But there is mutuality involved. For us to accept another person's alienation is simultaneously to alienate ourselves from him - to become complicit. When we decide to accept that another person is unreachable, we may cut him off, send him away, but we have set ourselves adrift as well. — Leah Hager Cohen

You want me to invite him to dinner."
"I want you to invite him to dinner," she agreed.
"You know," he said, "most gay men don't have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives."
"That's probably true," she said. "You're one of the lucky ones. — Matthew Haldeman-Time

So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them. — Baruch Spinoza

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals. — Mike Shinoda

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder? — Albert Camus