Olsama Quotes & Sayings

Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed. — Clive Barker

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. — Franz Grillparzer

There's something beautiful about that Scripture that says, "Your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). We need each other. There is power when the old and young dream together. — Shane Claiborne

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment. — Francis Bacon

It's when you don't win that you learn things about yourself. Everything I have gone through has made me who I am today. — Sasha Cohen

I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason
because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you?" She shakes her head. "I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay. — Veronica Roth

Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work. — Bill Maris

Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall. — Tom Robbins

It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans. — Gillian Flynn

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive. — F. Murray Abraham

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now.

Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative. — Colson Whitehead

For the church to act as if it dare not have any dealings with sinners is as much a betrayal of its mission as it would be for a hospital to turn away sick people or for a carpenter to refuse to touch rough-cut wood. — Robert Farrar Capon

A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun. — Paul Reiche III

No one can have too much hope. Anything is possible anytime, anywhere. — Paul Moxham