Olhava Way Quotes & Sayings

The key to searching for the truth is to hold passionately to your beliefs while simultaneously not feeling entrenched in your position, to be able to let go of the need to defend it in order to save face. It's almost a Buddhist thing, where you're not necessarily free of ego and concerns about status, but you're able to sit with them and maintain some objective separation. It's about letting ideas win, not people. It's about finding what's right, not being right. There — Adam Steltzner

Mutual aid and pleasure are linked, that the ties that bind are grounds for celebration as well as obligation. — Rebecca Solnit

Draw the attention of those who do things out of spite, to something else, away from what you wish to avoid. — Nabil N. Jamal

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I believe in God. God created the world. — P. J. O'Rourke

She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one. — Barbara Pym

I am an apple, yet i taste like a grape... Im a grapple. — Kelly Young

Writing ... is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and leave behind this litter of dead, unrecoverable selves is both unbearable and the commonest thing in the world - it happens to everybody. In the morning light one can write breezily, without the slight acceleration of one's pulse, about what one cannot contemplate in the dark without turning in panic to God. In the dark one truly feels that immense sliding, that turning of the vast earth into darkness and eternal cold, taking with it all the furniture and scenery, and the bright distractions and warm touches, of our lives. Even the barest earthly facts are unbearably heavy, weighted as they are with our personal death. Writing, in making the world light - in codifying, distorting, prettifying, verbalizing it - approaches blasphemy. — John Updike

To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable. — Robert H. Baker

I think when you add a layer of competition, I think that adds something to it as well. It's also fun to see people who have talent given a platform and an opportunity to shine and an opportunity to become recognized for what they do. — Dan Cutforth

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well. — Hortense Odlum

I don't ever take credit for discovering anybody, except for McLovin on 'Superbad'. — Allison Jones

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign. — John Boehner

History, that is to be written tomorrow ... to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known. — Gary Holder-Winfield