Oona Obrien Quotes & Sayings

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal. — William Ralph Inge

Those occasional people who seem to achieve some kind of happiness here like your two dead colleagues, these are the things that Hell allows to flourish in tiny, stunted bursts, to make it immeasurably worse for everyone else. — Simon Kurt Unsworth

Permit each man to think according to his light. — William Walker Atkinson

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. — Georg Solti

Half the people in our asylums may be suffering from a physical lesion of the brain but the others are unaccountably insane. The real reason is demoniac possession brought about by looking upon terrible things that they were never meant to see. — Dennis Wheatley

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming. — Adrian Bejan