Orval Quotes & Sayings

Are the kids at school?"
"No, they're in the lake. My God. — Dave Eggers

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal — Tupac Shakur

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments — G.K. Chesterton

If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing. — Chael Sonnen

It felt like a gift that had been caretaken by generations of the faithful and handed to us to live out and caretake and hand off. Like a stream that has flowed long before us and will continue long after us. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

You begin to think, maybe erroneously, that this other kind of anger is really a type of knowledge: the type that both clarifies and disappoints. It responds to insult and attempted erasure simply by asserting presence, and the energy required to present, to react, to assert is accompanied by visceral disappointment: a disappointment in the sense that no amount of visibility will alter the ways in which one is perceived. — Claudia Rankine

I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of "us" and "them. — Dalai Lama XIV

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking. — Anatoly Karpov

A city that pretends to be nothing but what it is, an enormous machine of exchange - of spectacle for money, of sensation for money, of money for more money, of pleasure for whatever be tomorrow's abstract cost. — David Foster Wallace

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

In doubtful matters boldness is everything. — Publilius Syrus

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying? — Voltaire

Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you. — S.C. Stephens

Is there any spot on his body that isn't hard? Tonsils? Kidneys? Oh! His tongue ... silky little devil. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows — Andre Breton

I think we all get into situations where we don't know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that's also what makes us 'grow up' and learn a lot about each other. — John Krasinski