Oran Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I think that's all love is. Understanding, smoothing away your strangeness. Making you part of the world, not separate from it. — Alexis Hall

To paraphrase Nietzsche:
'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had. — Oran Kangas

So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm. — Victoria Aveyard

It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: Close the window, it's too beautiful. — Albert Camus

As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store. — Natalie Massenet

The Arab world has no peer when it comes to hatred - of the Western world generally, and especially of Israel. Israel-hatred and its twin, Jew-hatred, are the oxygen that the Arab world breathes. — Dennis Prager

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think ... that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. — Neil Gaiman

Sometimes at midnight, in the great silence of the sleep bound town, the doctor turned on his radio before going to bed for the few hours' sleep he allowed himself. And from the ends of the earth, across thousands of miles of land and sea, kindly, well-meaning speakers tried to voice their fellow-feeling, and indeed did so, but at the same time proved the utter incapacity of every man truly to share in the suffering that he cannot see. "Oran! Oran!" In vain the call rang over oceans, in vain Rieux listened hopefully; always the tide of eloquence began to flow, bringing home still more the unbridgeable gulf that lay between Grand and the speaker. "Oran, we're with you!" they called emotionally. But not, the doctor told himself, to love or to die together
and that's the only way ... — Albert Camus

To 'kill time' is a case of mistaken identity -- you have mistaken the victim for the perp. — Oran Kangas

Silence is the door to Oran Mor. Close your eyes. Quieten your thoughts. And listen. Listen in particular to the sound of the waves. Let the Great Song sing in you. In an hour I will ring a bell. When you hear it, make a sound that resonates with the waves. Let it flow and develop, calling on all you have heard in the silence. — Alan McCluskey

Therefore, to maximize your productivity, deliberately focus on precisely one thing at a time. — Oran Kangas

Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!"
Amy was disgusted. "We had a common ancestor, like, five hundred years ago. Besides, if they think we're together, we only have to come up with one story, and I can do all the talking."
"Hey, I got an early acceptance to Notre Dame," Hamilton said defensively. "I can talk."
"Of course you can," Amy soothed. "It's what you say that might get us into trouble. — Gordon Korman

Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem — Oran Kangas

Having occupied both sides of the podium, I greatly prefer no podium at all. Just a conversation between reader and author. — Oran Kangas

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. — Albert Camus

My Epitaph:
THIS is Plan B — Oran Kangas

Oran is exile and Tetuan is imprisonment. And since I am happier in Tetuan than in Oran, that means I prefer jail in my native land to freedom in exile. — Mohamed Choukri

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard. — Grace Slick

I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck. — A.A. Bell

My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era ... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle. — Rachel Kushner

The earth is an orbiting speck in incomprehensible vastness. The histories of our civilizations, our accomplishments and secrets, great good and evil - these are no more significant than the single twinkle of a star. Perhaps, this is why we try to outshine the heavens with our cities and make theatrical events of our simple lives. — Christopher Hawke

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way,
And wiser men than I went worse astray. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tanks beached at X and Z were to race inland before dawn in a pincer movement to help capture two airfields south of Oran while Operation RESERVIST supposedly secured the port. Infantrymen would also encircle the city, preventing any reinforcements from reaching Oran if the French chose to fight. — Rick Atkinson

As Camus' reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places - even Oran or Hades. — Robert Zaretsky