Olivaceous Quotes & Sayings

Do not lie on low ground, the torrent will take you
off; do not lie on high ground, the wind will take you away — Raj Doctor

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both. — Chuck Todd

Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all. — Bruce Bawer

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater. — Charles Eisenstein

I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't? — Tricia Goyer

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it. — Iman

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring. — Robert A. Heinlein

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. — Joseph Addison

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable. — Adrian Rogers

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us. — Fred Rogers

The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid. — DJ Shadow

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? — Friedrich Nietzsche

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. — Michael Sheen

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless. — Magnus Carlsen

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer. — Tommy Bolt