Otterson Vase Quotes & Sayings

Money alone cannot build character or transform evil into good. It cries for full partnership with leaders of character and good will who value good tools in the creation and enlargement of life for Man. — Sebastian Spering Kresge

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs. — Celia Green

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests. — Winona LaDuke

We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that. — David Giuntoli

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? — Ibn Taymiyyah

The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible. — Walter Dean Myers

That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies. — Jeffrey Rosen

Life is full of glitches, enjoy them. — Paige Love-Rose

...she seemed so like a wet rag that would never dry. — D.H. Lawrence

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing — Martin Luther

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold. — Rachel Kushner

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. — William Wordsworth

[ ... ] most of the problems faced by humankind concerns [concerned] our inability to grasp and manage the increasingly complex systems of our world. — Peter M. Senge

I know what I want is impossible. If I can make my language flat enough, exact enough, if I can rinse each sentence clean enough, like washing a stone over and over again in river water, if I can find the right perch or crevice from which to record everything, if I can give myself enough white space, maybe I could do it. I could tell you this story while walking out of this story. I could - it all could - just disappear. — Maggie Nelson