Orbelia Quotes & Sayings

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions. — Duane Michals

I think things happened the way they did for a reason. — Aaron Neville

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you. — Sherry Turkle

My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company and lived in Dagenham. I could have told my mother that I wanted to work in pantomime. And she'd have said, "Great. I can help you." — Scott Raab

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should. — Charles Dickens

At some point you have to start letting people save their own life. — Poppy Z. Brite

What a swarm of the pseudo-"delivered" stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear - do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle. — Emil Cioran

Writers' lives break into two halves, — John Updike

And naturally, when you have one rumor, it buds little extra rumors. Just for the fun of it. — Terry Pratchett

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark — Veronica Roth

Pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom
It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, "who's coolest?"
Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together — Ned Vizzini

The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational. — Donald A. Norman