Ofner Loja Quotes & Sayings

If it is legitimate to kill in self-defence then it must be equally legitimate to steal in self-defence — Agona Apell

High society here turns me off and I feel a bit of rage against all these rich guys here, since I have seen thousands of people in the most terrible misery without anything to eat and with no place to sleep, that is what has most impressed me here, it is terrifying to see the rich having parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger ... Although I am very interested in all the industrial and mechanical development of the United States, I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They live as if in an enormous chicken coop that is dirty and uncomfortable. The houses look like bread ovens and all the comfort that they talk about is a myth. — Frida Kahlo

I just wanted to go to ... some quiet place. To forget. To be someone else. — Kelsey Sutton

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. — Nate Silver

Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most. — Brandon Mull

The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion over time... In general, as the value of land increases, the return on capital tends to decrease comparatively, which discourages business owners from investing in capital goods and private enterprise... Resources flow away from endeavours that can create jobs, produce wealth, and enliven society, and instead flow into land speculation. — Martin Adams

She could read the phone book and make it sound erotic. — Kresley Cole

Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder. — Louis Schwartzberg

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night? — Rudyard Kipling

In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature. — Dumitru Tepeneag

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle ... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls. — Jonathan Raban

We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind up with a total breakdown. — Caterpillar From Alice