Oramos In English Quotes & Sayings

For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It took This for me to learn that I am a citadel of sanity. — Philip Roth

Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly. — Paul Collier

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Consider it this way. The present is a split second, so tiny and trivial as to be immaterial. Everything else, everything real and substantial, is a coral reef of dead split seconds, forming the islands and continents of our reality. Every moment is a brick in the wall of the past, building enormous structures that have identity and meaning, cities we live in. The future is wet shapeless clay, the present is so brief it barely exists, but the past houses and shelters us, gives us a home and a name; and the mortar that binds those bricks, that stops them from sliding apart into a nettle-shrouded ruin, is memory. — K.J. Parker

Skiing was my passion. Running was a means to stay in shape for that. — Scott Jurek

I used to measure myself against other people, but I always came up short. Now, I try to figure out what I really want, and measure myself against that. — Inara Scott

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering. — Paul Reiser