Oss 117 Lost In Rio Quotes & Sayings

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem. — Christopher Hitchens

We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back. — Daniel Handler

They were exiles, but Hob provided a type of protection once they settled in. By playing up their strangeness, the way a slave simpered and acted childlike to escape a beating, they evaded the entanglements of the quarter. The walls of Hob made a fortress some nights, rescuing them from the feuds and conspiracies. White men eat you up, but sometimes colored folk eat you up, too. She — Colson Whitehead

Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought ... There has to be a different approach ... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed. — Mikhail Gorbachev

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have. — Richard Harris

If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she'd certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love. — Leo Buscaglia

Most of promoting seems unnatural to me, and I wish I didn't have to do it. I'm not especially good at tooting my own horn. However, I do love to connect with readers. That's why I try to keep up with my social media even when I don't have a new book coming out. — Linda Conrad

What?" he said. "You let me draw all over your arm in permanent ink, but I hand you a vegetable and you chicken out? — Rose Christo

Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person. — Peter Scazzero

This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast. — Jeff VanderMeer

It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid. — Harriet Lerner

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist — Robin Williams

I don't have to promise myself anything. That's all part of the wonderfulness that is me. — Pelle Almqvist