Ostergard Chair Quotes & Sayings

I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur. — Rick Yancey

A full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide it ... — Michael Cunningham

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill. — Fred Thompson

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends. — Rashida Jones

It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument. — Colin Stetson

To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions. — Nathaniel Branden

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir

Those few seconds when you're awake but empty. You forget where you are. What you are now, what you were before. It's all breath and heartbeat and blood moving. Like being in your mother's womb again. The peace of the void. — Rick Yancey

The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer. — H. P. Blavatsky

Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Contentedly sat the old woman. Soon now, the sea would hold no terrors, and the blinds wouldn't have to be down, nor the windows shut; she would even be able to walk along the shore at midnight as of old; and they, whom she had deserted so long ago, would once more shrink from the irresistable energy aura of her new, young body.
The sound of the sea came to her, where she sat so quietly; calm sound at first, almost gentle in the soft sibilation of each wave thrust. Farther out, the voices of the water were louder, more raucous, blatantly confident, but the meaning of what they said was blurred by the distance, a dim, clamorous confusion that rustled discordantly out of the gathering night.
Night!
She shouldn't be aware of night falling, when the blinds were drawn.
("The Witch") — A.E. Van Vogt

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor. — Sophocles

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. — Ed Markey

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it... — Jack London

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. — Barry Unsworth