Opaqued Quotes & Sayings

What dream, what hope, what despair drives us to the things we do, just to desert us when the deed is done? What hollow things are they, motive and reason, born at night to fade so quickly in the sunlight of consequence? What we do in life lives on inside us, long after ambition and fear lie frosted and opaqued on forgotten shores. What we do in life, more than what we think or say, is what we are. — Gregory David Roberts

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Next, the stalled cars had their windows opaqued with a cheap commercial compound used for etching glass, and slogans were painted on their doors. Some were long: THIS VEHICLE IS A DANGER TO LIFE AND LIMB. Many were short: IT STINKS! But the commonest of all was the universally known catchphrase: STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME! — John Brunner

We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times. — Michael Bloomberg

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. — Marguerite Duras

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. — Floyd Abrams

Leave it to Wes to use sex as a reason not to die. — Rachel Van Dyken

Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?" "You — Alexandre Dumas

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. — Toni Morrison

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. — John Webster

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. — Agatha Christie

When we are, love is not.
When we are not, love is. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Drink down all unkindness. — William Shakespeare

I think the happiness we find, we make. — Helen Fisher

The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone. — Dick Cheney