Olivers Montecito Quotes & Sayings

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases. — James Russell Lowell

Instead of asking, "Why is there war?" we might ask, "Why is there peace?" We can obsess not just over what we have been doing wrong but also over what we have been doing right. Because we have been doing something right, and it would be good to know what, exactly, it is. — Steven Pinker

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. — George Iles

I think you're a better man than you think you are. But what I meant was, maybe you're a better man than I think you are. — Laurelin Paige

15. And unto Allaah (Alone) falls in prostration whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and so do their shadows in the mornings and in the afternoons. — Anonymous

At the end of the day most folks do exactly what they want to, so we need to focus on the want to. — Richard Foth

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism. — Matt Taibbi

The fashion accessories of Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice, express the logic succinctly: (1) scales; (2) blindfold; (3) sword. — Steven Pinker