Oliverian Quotes & Sayings

Collective will supplants individual whim — Samuel P. Huntington

The son of Poseidon frowned across at us. 'All right, who unleashed he giant bronze guy? Apollo, did you do this?'

'I am offended!' I cried. 'I am only indirectly responsible for this! Also, I have a plan to fix it.'

'Oh, yeah?' Percy glanced back at the destroyed dinning pavilion. 'How's that going? — Rick Riordan

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I have a blessed life in so many ways. — Jeb Bush

Time was something altogether more fragmented than it had been before. It was like throwing a handful of feathers into the air and watching them drift. Moments no longer flowed from one to the other. — Rachel Joyce

I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles, and often get them wrong at first. — Caroline Leavitt

Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory. — Paulo Coelho

My fingers are mated into a mirrored series of what manifests, to me, as the letter X. — David Foster Wallace

When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others. — Ian McEwan

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true. — Walt Disney Company

if you want to heal a wound you have to stop touching it. — Gwen Calvo

Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to. — Smokey Robinson

Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon