Oriole Bird Quotes & Sayings

You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution? It would be absurd to say you couldn't do that. And once you acknowledge that, we're into a different game. — Antonin Scalia

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, ... Live today, tomorrow is not. — Horace

I have a sixth sense for casting. I just have to see and talk to the actors. I never make tests. I like to work with crowds. I like to get the principals in a crowd. When they do, something else comes off, something special. — Frank Capra

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction. — Richard M. Nixon

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. — Bertrand Russell

The girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a
trembling voice: It's the ghost! — Gaston Leroux

His gift is slower than Jane's. It creeps. It will touch us in a few seconds. — Stephenie Meyer

She especially liked my bedside lamp, which had a five-sided porcelain shade. Unlit, the shade seemed like bumpy ivory. Lit, each panel came to life with the image of a bird: a blue jay, a cardinal, wrens, an oriole, and a dove. Kathleen turned it off and on again, several times. "How does it do that?"
"The panels are called lithophanes." I knew because I'd asked my father about the lamp, years ago. "The porcelain is carved and painted. You can see it if you look inside the shade."
"No," she said. "It's magic. I don't want to know how it's done. — Susan Hubbard

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen. — Gil Scott-Heron

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures - the cicada, the mantis and the oriole - all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming. — Lisa See

Creativity is the new literacy — Chase Jarvis

I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace. — Dean Koontz

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society. — Joseph Stalin

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror. — Kristin Hannah