Oligino Quotes & Sayings

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. — Otto Lilienthal

The self is the same. Either you wear a masculine peel or a feminine peel. That is all it is. — Sadhguru

I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective. — Jane Smiley

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills. — Isaiah Thomas

How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. — Anna Quindlen

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times. — Laura Hillenbrand

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past. — Pierre Boulez

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God — Tertullian

The affirmation of a sexuality that has never been more rigorously subjugated than during the age of the hypocritical, bustling, and responsible bourgeoisie is coupled with the grandiloquence of a discourse purporting to reveal the truth about sex, modify its economy within reality, subvert the law that governs it, and change its future. The statement of oppression and the form of the sermon refer back to one another; they are mutually reinforcing — Michel Foucault

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another. — Joyce Cary

American culture really has two souls. And it's not a question of whether the culture becomes secularized. The culture never becomes one thing or the other. The culture is always two. The culture is always William Bradford and Jonathan Edwards. The culture is always Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison. America was born just in time to have two mentalities. We're like Jacob and Esau struggling in the womb. Secular people want to believe that we are a nation of the Enlightenment, and because of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution that secularism will supersede religion. Religious people want to believe that through the revival religion will supersede secularism. And both are wrong. "What's going to happen," he said, "is that there will continue to be a constant dynamic and tension between the two, running side by side.And they're going to keep on being about that for as long as there's an American identity worth talking about. — Bruce Feiler

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something. — Robin Sharma

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery. — Paul R. Ehrlich

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them. — Jennifer O'Neill