Oester Quotes & Sayings

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. — Leon Blum

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger. — William Shakespeare

Just promise me something. If this is a Search and you don't pick me, don't pick this path, for whatever reason, promise me you won't Erase me. — Kasie West

When the world outside my arms is pulling us apart, press your lips to mine and hold me with your heart. — Gene Pitney

I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out. — Chris Hedges

The edge of the sea masks a clock that marks the waves. — Gwen Calvo