Oregons Finest Quotes & Sayings

Which relationship would you try harder to keep; one that allows you to be yourself and enjoy the things you like, or one where you have to hide your desires and live in fear? When — Benjamin Burns

Deadlines are like a drug for me. I hate and need them. — Todd Strasser

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking ... the most audacious adventure that one can dare. — Alexis Carrel

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.
I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream. — Leigh Bardugo

Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns? — Napoleon Bonaparte

Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it. — Brooke Shields

The big questions don't matter if you get all the little ones wrong. — Robert Kroese

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company. — Timothy Ferriss

Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases. — Patrick Rothfuss

You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas eggs? — Noel Fielding

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work. — Gloria Whelan

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking. — Alex Winter

Why, when two people start living together, do they end up hurting each other so much? Maybe that's an indication that too much of anything isn't good. — Uday Mukerji