Orivet Quotes & Sayings

My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. — Emily Giffin

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support. — Tom Tancredo

The world is no nursery. — Sigmund Freud

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility ... According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. — C.S. Lewis

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls. — Jane Fonda

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look. — Chuck Palahniuk

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. — Benjamin Jowett

There is nothing harder to explain than humor. — Milan Kundera

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. — Judd Rose

My place smells like whatever loneliness smells like. Ramen and broken dreams or something. — Kellen Burden

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror. — Melanie Phillips

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger ... — Jean Vanier

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine. — Susan Orlean

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. — Edith Widder

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines. — Hamish Bowles