Obrist Interior Quotes & Sayings

I was not born to be forced. — Henry David Thoreau

You doona hate me for not being able to return you?" He paused for emphasis. "Ever, Gwen. I can't return you ever. — Karen Marie Moning

Our life is a dream, so dreams are more real than perceived reality. — Debasish Mridha

But Jesus had to speak through a public-address system - the only one available - which distorted his words, so that they came forth as the bombastic claim to be the one and only appearance of the Christ, of the incarnation of God as man. This is not good news. The good news is that if Jesus could realize his identity with God, you can also - but this God does not have to be idolized as an imperious monarch with a royal court of angels and ministers. God, as "the love which moves the sun and other stars," is something much more inward, intimate, and mysterious - in the sense of being too close to be seen as an object. — Alan W. Watts

How many memories can come through at once before they are just jumbled words and faces mixed together by years of pain? — Rebecca Maizel

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. — W. H. Auden

You know my position. We need to come back in force and deal with this sickness once and for all: occupy the city, impose our own laws, harvest every noxious plant and burn it. It — Greg Egan

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes. — Billy Collins

As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness. — Douglas Coupland

Sometimes lifting yourself out of the ashes will cause you to be burned by other people. Guess what? You can handle it. — Antonio T. Smith Jr.

For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth. — Ivica Dacic

His name meant "He Who Fasts for a Hundred Days," and in person he more than lived up to his name. He was so thin that he looked like skin stretched over bone. While Sister Aziza wore the hijab, Boqol Sawm wore a Saudi robe, a bit short, so that it showed his bony ankles. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

War ... strengthened the position of the armament industries ... to a point ... that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations ... war barbarised and lowered the already very low level of accepted conduct. — Doris Lessing

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire. — Sheldon Lee Glashow