Oplevert Quotes & Sayings

Pasture, stone wall, and steeple,
What most perturbs the mind:
The heart-rending homely people,
Or the horrible beautiful kind? — Louise Bogan

To find is the thing. — Pablo Picasso

I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen. — Amy Sedaris

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth. — Alexander Pope

I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems. — Ellen Gustafson

The problem with the dead is that they don't keep secrets. Eventually they tell on themselves. — Elizabeth Crook

Sports is all about money. — Lynn Samuels

To be courted as princesses for a few weeks, in order to be treated as slaves for the rest of our lives. — Samuel Richardson

Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world. One should cultivate an unbounded mind, above and below and across, without obstruction, without enmity, without rivalry. Standing, or going, or seated, or lying down, as long as one is free from drowsiness, one should practice this mindfulness. This, they say, is the holy state here. — Gautama Buddha

We are in the world to complement each other. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed. — Rumi