Obochos Closet Quotes & Sayings

Odin wishes to intercede.' - X/Odin — Rick Riordan

Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved. — Mary Rakow

It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of
the need to assuage an unusual power drive. — Robert Greenleaf

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future. — Ishmael Reed

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. — Rudolph A. Marcus

We stand up for the farmers
Who can't keep enough to eat
We walk out for the workers
Who don't know the taste of meat
We run forward for the children
With no shoes upon their feet
We will march this kingdom down
We will break the golden crown — Shannon Hale

Have you really read all those books in your room?"

Alaska laughing- "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read. — John Green

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. — Mignon McLaughlin

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive. — Arianna Huffington

Frustrated because it's going too fast to see but if you could see it, it wouldn't make any sense because you'd be looking too close — Brian Andreas

And he can feel his heart going out into the world ... — David Foster Wallace

One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. — Jean Cocteau

The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness. — Jules Verne

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. — Herman Melville