Olakes Quotes & Sayings

I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory. — Lina Rehal

For me, this is exactly what's so pernicious about the morality of debt: the way that financial imperatives constantly try to reduce us all, despite ourselves, to the equivalent of pillagers, eyeing the world simply for what can be turned into money
and then tell us that it's only those who are willing to see the world as pillagers who deserve access to the resources required to pursue anything in life other than money. — David Graeber

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face — J.R.R. Tolkien

Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?"
"To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!"
"You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever. — Libba Bray

The whole world is beautiful, the art is in the seeing. — Camille Pissarro

Thieves OUT, Thieves OUT!" cackled his elderly companion." Several others took — Terry Pratchett

Virtually every politician portrayed in film or on television over the last decade has been venal, corrupt, opportunistic, cynical, if not worse. Whether these dramatized images are accurate or exagerated matters little. The corporatist system wins either way: directly through corruption and indirectly through the damage done to the citizen's respect for the representative system.
(III - From Corporatism to Democracy) — John Ralston Saul

Your cold, inflexible heart makes me burn to be inside you."
"Charmer. — G.A. Aiken