Oser Quotes & Sayings

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet. — Robert Breault

Tonight you win, Grace. You win. I'll be yours if you'll be mine. — J.A. Huss

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I thought I'd find that Wholehearted people were just like me and doing all of the same things I was doing: working hard, following the rules, doing it until I got it right, always trying to know myself better, raising my kids exactly by the books ... — Brene Brown

I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys things and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn. But first things first. First, to escape this shell, this egg in which I have gestated, all eyes will be on the fire, all eyes blinded by the smoke, and when I walk out of here, out into your large world with its billions, no one will even see. It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's even better than darkness. — Michael Grant

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am. — Sonny Bono

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed ...
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde

The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.) — Sigmund Freud

I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.' — Jerry Della Femina

I don't believe in prolonging agonies," said Oser. "Rather than watch you enspell the rest of my fleet man by man - while I still possess a fleet to offer - I understand the Dendarii Mercenaries are looking for recruits." It — Lois McMaster Bujold

On the third, we got into troubles. Baz Jesek had gotten more and more involved with equipment and maintenance - he is a good engineer, I'll give him that - I was tactical commander, and Oser - I thought by default, but now I think design - took up the administrative slack. Could have been good, each doing what he did best, if Oser'd been working with and not against us. In the same situation, I'd have sent assassins. Oser employed guerilla accountants. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. — Neil Simon

I like coincidences. Seems like when you have a coincidence it is a clue to how the world all fits together, even though things may look to be wide apart. — Marilyn Oser

A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But — Steven Weinberg