Oracular Def Quotes & Sayings

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. — Jonathan Swift

If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator. — John Henry Newman

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly. — J. August Richards

So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic. — Bill Gates

We can choose to make "faith-filled" choices, or we can choose to make "faith-less" choices. — Wendy Blight

O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
O for an iceberg or two at control!
O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!
O for a pleasure trip up to the pole! — Rossiter Johnson

Habit: by choosing a certain behavior ahead of time, and then following that routine when an inflection point arrives. When — Charles Duhigg

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture. — Eva Mendes

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. — William Hague

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity. — Virginia Woolf

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting. — Frank Herbert