Olim Quotes & Sayings

his real point is that in the climate of fear that would follow the breakdown of authority, the kinder, more trusting, side of human nature would be obliterated. And from what we know of human behaviour when people are caught up in civil war and other situations in which their very survival is at stake, he seems to have been right. We — David Miller

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. — James Gandolfini

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit [perhaps this too will be a pleasure to look back on one day]. — Maggie Stiefvater

I don't like to get beat in anything! — Jeff Gordon

To dare it; to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin. — Alice Munro

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise. — Princess Superstar

I'm done pretending you don't mean anything to me.That you still don't.I loved you.I love you now,here.The bone deep shit that you try to capture in a song or a movies or a book, that kind of shit. It's the type of love that words can't compare to. I still love you. I never stopped. Time apart never changed that for me. — Shey Stahl

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then. — Dolly Parton

Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns out to be the revelation that the mad professor's anti-gravity device actually works, you must go back and silently delete all those flying cars buzzing around the city on page one. If you want to reveal something, you need to hide it properly first. — Colin Greenland

Tel Aviv, with its young Olim community, is the sexiest thing on the entire planet. — Ruth Westheimer

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. — Stephen Spender

In his 1973 "literary investigation," The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn exposed the practices of the Soviet penal system: "If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings, that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (the 'secret brand'); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums. — Donnie Eichar

I'd lost something I never knew I'd had. — Lee Child

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.) — Ovid

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day — Virgil

I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush. — Antonio Machado

We play the whole summer. I do think guys should be compensated. Just like I think college players should be compensated as well. Unfortunately, it's not there. But I think it should be something, you know, there for it. — Dwyane Wade

Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others. — Guillermo Del Toro