Onie Quotes & Sayings

I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I was deployed on May 15, 1957, but I didn't go off because a British nuclear engineer, a young father, developed qualms after seeing pictures of native children marveling at the mushrooms in the sky, and sabotaged me. I could see why during that short drop before I hit the atoll: the island looks like god's knuckles in a bathtub, the ocean is beautifully translucent, corals glow underwater, a dead city of bones, allowing a glimpse into a white netherworld. I met the water and fell a few feet into a chromatic cemetery. The longer I lie here, listening to my still functioning electronic innards, the more afraid I grow of detonating after all this time. I don't share your gods, but I pray I shall die a silent death. — Marcus Speh

Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin. — Angela Merkel

If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy. — Rebecca Onie

You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others' addictions. — Kerry Katona

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all. — John Wooden

The best thing for a bachelor is to get a wife who will really cooperate in the great work. — Samael Aun Weor

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic. — Eric Dane

If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever. — Seth Godin

It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything. — Rebecca Onie

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. — W. Clement Stone

Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves. — Rebecca Onie

A vast engine of wonderful delicacy and intricacy, a machine that is like the tools of the Titans put in your hands. This machinery, in its external fabric so massive and so exquisitely adjusted, and in its internal fabric making new categories of thought, new ways of thinking about life. — Charles Ferguson

I think that we Americans, at least in the Southern col[onie]s, cannot contend with a good grace for liberty until we shall have enfranchised our slaves, Laurens told a friend right before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.64 — Ron Chernow

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. — Fred Hoyle

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months. — Ted Danson

And I would never, ever have that euphoric, all-consuming love that had wrapped around me every moment I was with Sydney, that feeling of love that constantly made me think, Yes, this is what it means to be alive. — Richelle Mead

Even Google can't reach God. — Brian L. Tucker

At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented. — Rebecca Onie

A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY! - Danny, the champion of the world. — Roald Dahl

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself - and keep it there. — Margaret Mitchell