Ognibene Quotes & Sayings

Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your poverty, too. The worst enemies of the poor are the poor themselves. And never, never appear that you are virtuous and without sin. It it is the virtuous who have many enemies because for they shame the many without virtue. — F. Sionil Jose

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows. — Chris Pine

Swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. — Jan Struther

He purses his lips, and the sexual predator mustache he's rocking bushes up. — Elle Kennedy

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it. — Xenocrates

Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough. — John Lennon

Choose well, thy choice is brief, and yet endless. — Kimball Lee

I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education. — Bailee Madison

Elk were mating now - The males were fighting, and they had to chase the females, which depleted the fat that both sexes had accumulated over the summer and thereby diminished their chances of surviving the winter. "It would be better for the elk," Dave said as we prepared dinner, "if the females just gave it up."
All three women stared at him. A silence ensued. Dave said, "Or I could be wrong. — Tim Cahill

So how do you make your exit?" she asked. "In a puff of smoke? Or do you just vaporize?"
He grinned at her. "Much as I hate to be a crushing disappointment to you, I reckon I'll just take the door. — Justin Somper

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out. — Eli Broad

Labor to help others, and especially strive to encourage them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon