Oelke Concrete Quotes & Sayings

It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them. — Azazel Jacobs

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely. — Jacques Barzun

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger. — Horace Walpole

Life is full of tough choices, indeed. — Christian Andersen

COMPUTER: HELLO, CECIL. HOW ARE YOU?
CECIL: Computer! I am...I am doing well. How are you?
COMPUTER: BETTER. CECIL, DO YOU LOVE COMPUTER?
CECIL: I admit, I had not given it much though. I like computers generally. They calculate and power off and on. I suppose, given time and perhaps some gifts, I could learn to... [shifting noises] hey! — Joseph Fink

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal. — Donna Lynn Hope

You said war should never be personal, but that's all it's ever been for me. — Patrick Ness

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood. — Junot Diaz

Anger is a wasted emotion. — Edwidge Danticat

I am a story as well as a happening, and I want my story to be known, — Michael Morpurgo

I apologise for my behaviour lately. I haven't ... been myself."
Or she'd just been a part of herself that she usually kept on a tight, tight leash, he thought. But he said, "I understand."
And from the way her eyes softened, he knew that was all he'd ever needed to say. — Sarah J. Maas

He finally let his eyes focus on God's. "I didn't save her." Ronowski wrung his hands together. "Day did. He saved both of us. I treat him like shit all the time because he knows the truth about me and he almost got himself killed to save me." God — A.E. Via

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. — Stephen Leacock

Cannibal: epicures who abstain from alcohol and tobacco. As moral guides, they are underutilized in the police forces of modern societies. — Bauvard

Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above. — Khaled Hosseini