Oswaldata Quotes & Sayings

Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be. — Eilis O'Neal

London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters! — Robyn Davidson

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind. — Rachel Zoe

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. — Simonides Of Ceos

In tender hearted natures, those that mostly never feel strong passion, suffering often comes to make them harder. When these do not know in themselves what it is to suffer, suffering is then very awful to them and they badly want to help everyone who has to suffer, and they have a deep reverence for anybody who knows really how to always suffer. But when it comes to them to really suffer, they soon begin to lose their fear and tenderness and wonder. Why it isn't so very much to suffer, when even I can bear to do it. It isn't very pleasant to be having all the time, to stand it, but they are not so much wiser after all, all the others just because they know too how to bear it. — Gertrude Stein

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history. — Michael Parenti

You could hear us?" Christiana asked with horror.
"I'm sure the whole house can hear you," she said dryly. "He roars like a lion, and you squeal like a stuck pig. — Lynsay Sands

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement. — Jackson Pollock

It's two seasons since I raced in Sepang and I'm looking forward to it now. It's a track where you have a little bit of everything - it's hard to ride, it's hot, there are fast and slow corners, hard braking, long straights and everybody has references from the tests.
Nevertheless, we need to wait to see on Friday what the temperature and track conditions are like to understand how the tyres will work, because it's normally very slippery. I'm really enjoying racing at the moment and I want to continue like this, pushing the maximum from our side without thinking about the others. — Dani Pedrosa

You see," she said, "with the axe, it's easier to get ahead. . . . — Brandon Sanderson

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself. — Paulo Coelho

Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. — Karen Armstrong

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. — Joel Salatin

Really, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days. — Enrique Iglesias

Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising. — Alexandre Dumas