Opdyke Quotes & Sayings

You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence — Irene Gut Opdyke

Every day now, I found a chance to slip outside and leave food under the fence. I knew it was a drop in the ocean, but I could not do nothing. — Irene Gut Opdyke

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me. — Betty Smith

Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn't be much of a test. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If we were stopped and questioned, I always smiled at the officers, and they always smiled back. In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl, this is how you destroy your enemies. — Irene Gut Opdyke

I tell you a secret about Chopin, piano is his best friend. More. He tells piano all his secrets." - piano teacher Eleanora Sivan. — Anna Goldsworthy

If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me. — Sonia Braga

There's the feeling, and the right reading - that's all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling. — Linda McCartney

We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses. — Javier Marias

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home. — Henry Ward Beecher

So we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it. — J.I. Packer

I'm going to get out. Her spirits lurched unsteadily into the air like a wounded pigeon. I'm going to get out of this wormpit of a town. And I will never, never come back here again. — Frances Hardinge

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. — Dennis Lehane

We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a thing so terrible that it acquired a dreadful holiness. It was a miracle of evil. It was not possible to say with words what we had witnessed, and so we kept it safely guarded until the time we could bring it out, and show it to others, and say, 'Behold. This is the worst thing man can do'. — Irene Gut Opdyke

There was a lull. Sammy was staring across the room at George Opdyke, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. I was about to say he was lost in thought, but Sammy was never really lost, and he never actually thought, for that implied deep reflection. He was figuring. Miss Goldblum edged her undernourished white hand into his. Sammy played with it absent-mindedly, like a piece of silverware. — Budd Schulberg

Our own poor poets, I am afraid, have been so intimidated by our clinics and laboratories that they have abandoned the first principles of beginning, that of the festival; and the heart of the festival has always been the atmosphere of myth, of delight. — Joseph Campbell

In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance. — Irene Gut Opdyke

One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit. — Barack Obama

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another. — George Herbert

Witty people came out in autumn; beauties in July. — Andrew Holleran