Oddaljen Quotes & Sayings

We were enveloped in that state of grace where one melds with the flow of Nature. Having once tasted it, one craves that state like water. — Jack Loeffler

You want to change the world? Forget politics. Learn to code. — Marcus Sakey

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt. — Veronica Roth

Ah, yes. The lovely Claudia. We certainly would not want the Angel to become concerned about her hoyden of a cousin, would we?" Augusta — Amanda Quick

The official government radio station was still broadcasting that the New York Power Authority would have power back up to Con Edison and lower Manhattan — Matthew Mather

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me. — Casey Neistat

While we were being bombed in Dresden sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were a duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, 'I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.' Nobody laughed, but we were still all glad he said it. At least we were still alive! He proved it. — Kurt Vonnegut

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense. — Marcus Aurelius

This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it. — Ellen Pompeo

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either. — Artie Lange

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future. — Ian Rankin

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. — Christopher Dawson