Olmstead Quotes & Sayings

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter. — Jodi Picoult

The spectacle shop was old, long, and narrow, with a glass front and a small thin door that opened onto a somewhat busy avenue in the antiques district on the South side of Lovat. It was a quiet enough area, away from the rougher warrens, but not particularly elevated. Across the cramped street hawkers sold vases, while up the road outside a rug merchant's shop a man sold antique suits. There was also Dubois' new storefront to the East; he dealt in religious artifacts and trinkets. The shopkeep hadn't liked when he had moved in; it had somehow changed the feel of the warren. Odd folks had started showing up shortly after Saint Olmstead Religious Antiques opened: black-clad priests, Hasturians in yellow robes, and a few Deeper cultists dressed in their gray sackcloth rags. It had set the entire warren on edge. — K.M. Alexander

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? ... He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage ... — Robert Olmstead

All that night he followed bends of the black road jeweled by starlight until the wan light of the dawn touched the east with red and the pastures turned green. (pg. 76) — Robert Olmstead

I could no longer picture Rosalind in my mind's eye; the tender vision of the girl in white had been blown to pieces as if by a nuclear bomb. This was something unimaginable, something hollow as the yellowed husks that insects leave behind in dry grass, blowing with cold alien winds and a fine corrosive dust that shredded everything it touched. — Tana French

This cat-and-mouse could not last forever, and he also knew that when you are the mouse you don't have much to say about it to the cat. — Robert Olmstead

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)] — Louis D. Brandeis

Once the two of you come together, even the devil himself will be running for cover.
- The Duke of Traherne — Diana Quincy

Our souls have been suffering in a kind of darkness — Robert Olmstead

An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills. - Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead — Erik Larson

Of late she'd become impatient with the inexplicit needs of boys and men and their acting so rashly on what they could not fathom and surely could not articulate.
- Coal Black Horse Chapter 1 — Robert Olmstead

I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.' — Timothy McVeigh

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area. — Gordon Brown

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928) — Jane Mayer

They came and they went; they ached and pained. They laughed privately and cried to themselves as if heeding a way- off silent call. They were forever childish, sweet and convulsive. They heard sound the way dog heard sound. They were like the moon- they changed every eight days. — Robert Olmstead

Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting. — Thomm Quackenbush

When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it. — Darlene Love

In her mind, men were no different than droughty weather or a sudden burst of rainless storm. — Robert Olmstead

It's hard to miss something that you have never had. — Kathleen Olmstead

Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more. — Patrick Ness

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair. — Taylor Swift

Every night I fold myself into her, every night she comes into my life and I feel her hand on my heart and she is saying, I am here ... I am here. — Robert Olmstead