Quotes & Sayings About Olympias

There are people who believe in you. You might not always believe that yourself, but there are - parents, teachers, neighbors, relatives, me. I know that no matter what is thrown at you, you'll recover amazingly. — Obert Skye

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate. — Michael Arrington

You must be talking about my new friend. The woman named Tilda.
- Olympias — James Dashner

Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in my books. Teachers put grades in my books. Love letters sent in envelopes I sell. Ledgers for accountants, pads for shopping lists, agendas for planning week. Everything in here important to life, and that make me happy, give honour to my life.'
The man delivered his little speech with such solemnity, such a grave sense of purpose and commitment, I confess that I felt moved. What kind of stationery store owner was this, I wondered, who expounded to his customers on the metaphysics of paper, who saw himself as serving an essential role in the myriad affairs of humanity? There was something comical about it, I suppose, but as I listened to him talk, it didn't occur to me to laugh. — Paul Auster

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you. — Paul Butterfield

Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance. — Laura Riding

We are the short of people that make health insurance popular. — Terry Sawchuk

Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms? — Roman Vishniac

Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100. — Jochen Zeitz

What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be. — Laura Riding