Obten Quotes & Sayings

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition. — Tony Abbott

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all. — Rachel Zucker

Koturovic somehow came up with the idea there were some kind of creatures - big, smart, scary alpha predators - living in these higher dimensions. Telepathically-sensitive people sensed them all through history and that's where all our myths about demons and monsters come from. It's their presence leaking through. When the dimensional barriers were shattered, according to him, these things would come through and eat everything they could until the barriers reasserted themselves. Kind of the universe's method of population control. — Peter Clines

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. — Nat Turner

I have met parents all over the world, and they all just want to raise their kids to a higher standard than they were raised with. — Michael Mullen

I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie. — Michael Kors

It is not her you need saving from, it said. — Patrick Ness

When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science. — Victor J. Stenger

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring. — Ernest Hemingway,

His treatment of mechanical problems wasn't divorced from the worldly situations in which they arise, and as a result [John Muir's service manual on Volkswagens] is extraordinarily clear and useful. It has a human quality, as well. — Matthew B. Crawford

Lord, show me anything in me that is not right in Your eyes so I can confess it before You, because I choose to live Your way. P — Stormie O'martian