Otoalex Quotes & Sayings

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet. — Pearl Cleage

Without faith we count down the days to death, with it we count up the days till happiness — Andrew Lowery

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty. — Khalil Gibran

When life takes something that is yours, you have every right to demand it back! — Megan Squires

Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in. — LeCrae

Everyone, including the women who said they were happily married, said they wanted their daughters and granddaughters to approach marriage differently from how they had. — Aziz Ansari

When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind. — Suzanne Massie

In the twentieth century we have become accustomed to the fact that - in the name of the nation - Catholics will fight Catholics, Protestants will fight Protestants, and Marxists will fight Marxists. The charge of blasphemy, if it is ever made, is treated as a quaint anachronism; but the charge of treason, of placing another lyalty above that to the nation state, is treated as the unforgivable crime. The nation state has taken the place of God. — Lesslie Newbigin

His voice had the rough, abraded texture of stone against stone. Inej always wondered if he'd sounded that way as a little boy. If he'd ever been a little boy. — Leigh Bardugo

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear. — Sappho

I do not perceive why I should be more in want of employment at forty or fifty than one-and-twenty. Woman's usual occupations of hand and mind will be as open to me then as they are now; or with no important variation. If I draw less, I shall read more; if I give up music, I shall take to carpet-work. — Jane Austen