Olivata Quotes & Sayings

Most people were more willing to talk about fighting than to do it, especially against soldiers. — Robert Jordan

I started grasping at moments that weren't misery. Slowly, slowly, I found them. — Kate Milford

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling

We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language. — Padma Viswanathan

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. — Francis Bacon

She saw, yet again, that her friend's compliments were just bits of art and artifice. They were paper swans, cunningly folded so that they could float on the air for a few moments. Nothing more. — Marie Rutkoski

Genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation of its own works. — Marcel Proust