Ofensat Quotes & Sayings

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. — Ray Bradbury

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. — William Hazlitt

People are forgiving of v 1.0 of a product if it's truly innovative and useful. Then you can get away with a lot. But if you're merely marginally improving the status quo, then you better be rock solid. — Guy Kawasaki

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always. — Mahatma Gandhi

Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently. — Alan Alda

Out of the new arrivals in our lives
the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child
we constantly make of ourselves our selves. — Nancy Mairs

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body. — Umberto Eco

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. — Kate Beckinsale

Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest. — Robert Southwell

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable. — Jefferson Davis

There's never enough time to do nothing! — Daniel Radcliffe

If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights. — James Madison

I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know. — Wolfman Jack

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. — Dalai Lama

The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole. — Ban Ki-moon