Oblivions Peak Quotes & Sayings

Some people grow under responsibility; others swell. — Henrietta C. Mears

Do you know why some people feel jealousy from me? Because I don't like to comment back on their stupid remarks. — Wiz Khalifa

Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger. — Thomas Merton

I don't know where I'm going, but I have to get to him. I don't know what I'm doing, but I have to protect him. — Nicola Yoon

In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven. — Victor Hugo

It is easy for an African to hate the invader and drive him out of Africa, but it is very difficult for an American Negro to do this. He obviously can't do this to white people; there's no place to drive them. This is a country that belongs equally to us both. One has got to live together here or else there won't be any country. — James Baldwin

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions. — Stephen G. Post

I remember being scared that something must, surely, go wrong, if we were this happy, her and me, in the early days, when our love was settling into the shape of our lives like cake mixture reaching the corners of the tin as it swells and bakes. — Max Porter

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

But desperation does funny things to a person. Makes you grasp for any sliver of hope. Makes you throw rational thought and logic out the window. Makes you act in ways you would never have imagined possible. Turns strong men into weak. Honest men into liars. — Siobhan Davis

I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere! — Gabrielle Aplin

President Obama is getting a new limousine that will have advanced night-vision capabilities. The technology even has a cool name ... headlights. — Jimmy Fallon

I mean, we're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are - as far as we know - the only part of the universe that's self-conscious. We could even be the universe's form of consciousness. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi