Olgados Quotes & Sayings

Civilization ... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate. — Jack Nicholson

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, I'm sorry my telling the truth about the stupid things you do is inconvenient for you, — John Scalzi

Later, I could get that drizzle feeling just about any time I saw a kid on a swing. The hopelessness of it - the forward excitement, the midflight return. The futile belief that the next time around, the next flight forward, you wouldn't get dragged back again. You wouldn't have to start over, and over. — Emily Fridlund

He smiled. "You are one beautiful bitch."
"Thank you. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. — Thomas Carlyle

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you. — Charles Dickens

And fragile is thy tenure of this world
Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
("To Science") — George Sterling

Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?"
Danny: "Human nature," he said. "When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it's a matter of personal survival, I think. It's not always meant to hurt, but it often does. — Judith-Victoria Douglas

If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately. — Richard Ingrams

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. — W.C. Fields

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military. — Matt Sanchez

The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced. The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great literature and art. No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior. — James Weldon Johnson