Oferito Quotes & Sayings

The room into which Ivan Ivanovich stepped was quite dark, because the shutters were closed and the sunbeam that penetrated through a hole in the shutter was broken into rainbow hues and painted upon the opposite wall a multicolored landscape of thatched roofs, trees, and clothes hanging in the yard, but all upside down. This made an uncanny twilight in the whole room. — Nikolai Gogol

We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we'd been taught by every person who'd ever used us for their own benefit. — Laura Wiess

If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create. — Lionel Suggs

At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was my philosophy teacher from the Antilles who reminded me one day: "When you hear someone insulting the Jews pay attention; he is talking about you." And I believed at the time he was universally right, meaning that I was responsible in my body and my soul for the fate reserved for my brother. Since then, I have understood that what he meant quite simply was the anti-Semite is inevitably a negrophobe. — Frantz Fanon

Girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it. — Don DeLillo

Dependence leads to subservience. — Thomas Jefferson

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ. — Ted Dekker

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU. — David Cameron

In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone. — Elliott Colla

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance. — Thomas Jefferson

The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings. — Christopher Fry