Oommen Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Jos growled from under the counterpane to know what the time was; but when he at last extorted from the blushing Major (who never told fibs, however they might be to his advantage) what was the real hour of the morning, he broke out into a volley of bad language, which we will not repeat here, but by which he gave Dobbin to understand that he would jeopardy his soul if he got up at that moment, that the Major might go and be hanged, that he would not travel with Dobbin, and that it was most unkind and ungentlemanlike to disturb a man out of his sleep in that way; on which the discomfited Major was obliged to retreat, leaving Jos to resume his interrupted slumbers. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Then having drunk deep of the cup of wisdom I looked into the hearts of men, and there found I yet greater mysteries and was glad, for only in the Search for Truth could my Soul be stilled, and the flame within be quenched. Down — Dr. Diane England

As his flesh touched my spirit, the feeling of falling turned into a feeling of flying. I was soaring through time toward him. — Laura Whitcomb

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. — Mark Kurlansky

Words like guilt and shame and nightmares - the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no longer there. — Nathan Filer

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium. — David Bowie

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. — Seneca The Younger

I'm living in fiction. It's perfectly okay to be in love with any and all fictional boyfriends, even if they aren't yours. — Anne Eliot

God is necessary, and therefore must exist ... But I know that he does not and cannot exist ... Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them. — Sophocles

The lights were cheap LEDs tinted a false pink that was supposed to flatter the complexion but instead made everyone look like undercooked beef. There were no cabins, only row after row of formed — James S.A. Corey

Of all the weapons vital for a speedy victory, the most vital is information. — John Man

social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking for. — Rory Miller

There used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called "diminished capacity" and "not guilty by reason on insanity." These concepts would bewilder a Loonie. In Luna City a man would necessarily be of diminished mental capacity to even think about rape; to carry one out would be the strongest possible proof of insanity - but among Loonies such mental disorders would not gain a rapist any sympathy. loonies do not psychoanalyze a rapist; they kill him. Now. Fast. Brutally. — Robert A. Heinlein

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun! — Barry Goldwater