Onoculation Quotes & Sayings

My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch, and that we be conscious and sensorially attuned to this world in this moment that we are alive. — Karim Rashid

We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium. — Richard Chandler

Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible distance from us, achieves nothing beyond the onoculation of here and now with the remote or anticipated evil that is the object of our distress. — Aldous Huxley

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. — Stephen Sondheim

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper ... or the money to make a political contribution. — Richard J. Codey

There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

It takes a long time to wake up. That's why it doesn't happen to people who are in a hurry. — Robin Gregory

We must love, as looking one day to hate. — George Herbert

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. — Thomas Carlyle

'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid. — Ron Funches