Oschadbank Quotes & Sayings

Love at first sight? Let me just put on my glasses. — Ljupka Cvetanova

From the olive-strewn forum, one could see the village down below. Not a sound came from it; wisps of smoke rose in the limpid air. The sea also lay silent, as if breathless beneath the unending shower of cold, glittering light. From the Chenoua, a distant cock crow alone sang the fragile glory of the day. Across the ruins, as far as one could see, there were nothing but pitted stones and absinthe plants, trees and perfect columns in the transparence of the crystal air. It was as if the morning stood still, as if the sun had stopped for an immeasurable moment. In this light and silence, years of night and fury melted slowly away. I listened to an almost forgotten sound within myself, as if my heart had long been stopped and was now gently beginning to beat again. — Albert Camus

All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again. — Lucille Clifton

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Baobab. Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened — Paula McLain

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare. — Ron Paul

But the truth enters at the end of life.
It enters like oxygen into every cell
and the madness it feeds there in some
is only a lucid metaphor
for something long burned to nothing,
like a star.
How do you get under your desire?
How do you peel away each desire
like ponderous clothes, one at a time,
until what's underneath is known? — Michael Ryan

Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it. — Kate Tempest

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it. — Nuruddin Farah

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky

You speak of yourself and others who were in your same position as objects."
Boyd's eyebrows ticked up. "Isn't that what I am? I was merchandise there but now I'm back to being a tool. It's nothing but semantics. — Santino Hassell

I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.

Don't make enemies, I told myself.
Swallow your pride.
Hold your tongue.

But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues. — Jen Crane

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is. — Leo Tolstoy

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. — Steven Pinker