Obvallaris Quotes & Sayings

Dreamers have different gifts and they are sent to different people. Some people will understand you and embrace every word you utter. Some will genuinely not understand you, some will ignore you because they can't bear seeing you grow before their very eyes. Some of them will pretend to be totally ignorant although deep down they understand the whole concept. But there is something they don't know that pride is lurking for their soul. Try not be discouraged by these sort of reactions and remember your duty is to dream, learn and do what you are called to do on this planet. — Euginia Herlihy

Always in my love, sudden night.
Always in myself, my enemy.
And always in my always, the same absence. — Carlos Drummond De Andrade

Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth. — Henry Petroski

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. — Hugo Weaving

The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life. — Gretel Ehrlich

It's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes
all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom — Paul Auster

It is characteristic of mature love that it calls into play all man's potentialities; it engages the whole man, so to speak. Contact with the visible manifestations of God's love can awaken within us a feeling of joy born of the experience of being loved. But this encounter also engages our will and our intellect. Acknowledgment of the living God is one path towards love, and the "yes" of our will to his will unites our intellect, will and sentiments in the all- embracing act of love. But this process is always open-ended; love is never "finished" and complete; throughout life, it changes and matures, and thus remains faithful to itself. — Pope Benedict XVI

Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work. — Stephen Manes

Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal. — Sandy Smith

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next. — Virgil

When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it. — Barack Obama

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. — H.L. Mencken

A man who works for the immediate present and its immediate rewards is nothing but a fool. — David McCullough

You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't. — N.E. Bode

We breathe our deepest during sleep.
When we are in the state of full rest.
We are able to be. — J.R. Rim