Officious Bystander Quotes & Sayings

Look at this beautiful world! — Heather Demetrios

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,
the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation. — Frances Power Cobbe

Those who stand on their toes are not steady. — Laozi

The Sea
Will be the Sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy. — Farid Al-Din Attar

Then he told Perry that love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and the earth and everything in between. — Veronica Rossi

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him. — John Piper

You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it? — Marc Jacobs

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore. — Danny Pintauro

Luck is personal; we all have our own. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but it's yours, and it follows you wherever you go...And luck can change, because as my nana always insisted, luck was a state of mind. — Lynne Matson