Orsmond Honda Quotes & Sayings

Some things you sentence yourself to life for. — Donna Lynn Hope

he "obliterated by the praiseworthy use he made of leisure the stain he had incurred through his active exertions in former days. — Stephen Greenblatt

I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
Clouds pass and disperse.
Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables?
Is it for such I agitate my heart?
I am incapable of more knowledge.
What is this, this face
So murderous in its strangle of branches? -
Its snaky acids kiss.
It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults
That kill, that kill, that kill.
From the poem "Elm", 19 April 1962 — Sylvia Plath

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. — Jean De La Bruyere

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen. — Marian Keyes

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid. — Noam Chomsky

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it. — J.I. Packer

If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do. — Vincent Bugliosi

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. EPHESIANS 2:12-14 — David Platt

She brought herself to decide she would make an effort to renew that friendship with the Cohens, for there was no one else who could help her. She wanted them to tell her what she must read. For there are two ways of reading: one of them deepens and intensifies what one already knows; from the other, one takes new facts, new views to weave into one's life. She was saturated with the first, and needed the second. All those books she had borrowed, two years before - she had read them, oh yes; but she had not been ready to receive them. — Doris Lessing

we are destroyed or uplifted by what they hear instantly or cumulatively — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Some days I think the world as it is was invented just to fuck with us. And then I realize that doesn't make any sense at all, because it assumes a childish, vengeful God. If there is a God, He or She isn't a child. God is a scientist, and all this shit we're wading in is our agar. It's the only growth medium we're ever going to get. — Mira Grant

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base — Mark Twain