Olessa Quotes & Sayings

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. — Arthur Young

God has chosen you for a purpose — Sunday Adelaja

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll. — Harry Caray

We need much less than we think we need. — Maya Angelou

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord's perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back. — Charles Stanley

I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition. — Susanna Kaysen

What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer, and are not ashamed to shew even visible displeasure, if ever the bitter taste is taken from their mouths." — Hester Lynch Piozzi

As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better. — Don Ward

Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world. Every girl must decide whether to settle for adoration or fight for love. There on the bed, in her pigtails and pain, my daughter was me - the little girl I once was, the woman I am now, still struggling to answer the questions: How can I be expansive and free and still be loved? Am I going to be a lady or am I going to be fully human? Do I trust the unfolding and continue to grow, or do I shut all of this down so I fit? — Glennon Doyle Melton

Family is fun, way more fun than music. — Aaron Watson

The only really indecent people are the chaste. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

Above him Amy huffs. "They're only mammary glands." Bohdi tries to focus on the lock, but what he saw moments before rises to the forefront of his mind. "That's like saying the Mona Lisa is only a painting." She crosses her arms over her chest, even though it's sadly well concealed by his vest. "You've just been culturally sensitized to find mammary glands sexually appealing. — C. Gockel