Ophelia Lovibond Quotes & Sayings

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place. — Walter E. Williams

I've got nothing to do today but smile. — Paul Simon

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all. — W. H. Auden

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time. — Dan Deacon

They weren't coming back and I could never re-create what we had, but I could move forward. — Katie McGarry

What ... what game?" "The only game. The game of thrones. — George R R Martin

Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans. — Charles Simeon

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create! — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. — Erma Bombeck

[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man - a man of restless and versatile intellect - who ... plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. — Thomas Henry Huxley