Ossifying Quotes & Sayings

If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid. — Amanda Grange

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think. — Billy Burke

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing. — Guy Finley

Tchotchka. Amorta. Heart of my heart. Speak to me. — Audrey Niffenegger

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. — Alan Greenspan

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits. — Dan O'Brien

Dorrigo Evans was unable to make head or tail of it. His tastes were in any case already ossifying into the prejudices of those who voyage far into classics in adolescence and rarely journey elsewhere again. He was mostly lost with the contemporary and preferred the literary fashions of half a century before - in his case, the Victorian poets and the writers of antiquity. — Richard Flanagan

You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine. — Justin Halpern

Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that's everything. — Ilona Andrews

Thoughts aren't the problem. Problems only develop when thoughts no longer arise from or refer to actual experience. That's when thoughts start ossifying into their own bureaucratic institutions, becoming assumptions and dogma. — Ethan Nichtern

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home. — Craig L. Thomas

I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain. — Peter Capaldi