Oltremare Quotes & Sayings

Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many. — Gautama Buddha

I have a hunch it's a thing that only fails to be basic because it's never had material recognition. The weakness of this profession is its attraction for the man a little crippled and broken. Within the walls of the profession he compensates by tending toward the clinical, the 'practical' - he has won his battle without a struggle."

"On the contrary, you are a good man, Franz, because fate selected you for your profession before you were born. You better thank God you had no 'bent' - I got to be a psychiatrist because there was a girl at St. Hilda's in Oxford that went to the same lectures. Maybe I'm getting trite but I don't want to let my current ideas slide away with a few dozen glasses of beer. — F Scott Fitzgerald

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time. — Rene Dubos

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. — Bernie Sanders

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial — James Joyce

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. — Oscar Wilde

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut. — Jonathan Sacks

No matter how you feel you have to act
like you are very popular with yourself;
very relaxed and purposeful
very unconfused
and not
like you are walking through the sunshine
singing
in chains. — Tony Hoagland

Love returns to love, again, and again and again. — Ann Marie Hoff

Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context. — Richard Pascale

My boyfriend is a rock god baby
(and not kiss-of-death(sorry)) — Rachel Caine

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made. — Bonnie Bedelia