Otwol Quotes & Sayings

For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis
I don't care!"
"Huh," I considered. "I guess I don't either".
"Most people don't! All they care about," he added grimly, "is being right". — Lionel Shriver

If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost ... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts ... for they have already been given to another. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward. — Ron Livingston

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. — Edwin Land

At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams. — Thomas Jefferson

Loop me in, odd one. — Dean Koontz

People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. And therein lies a fascinating dichotomy. "The universe always was," gets no respect as a legitimate answer to "What was around before the beginning?" But for many religious people, the answer, "God always was," is the obvious and pleasing answer to "What was around before God? — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one. — Hafez

A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot. — Samuel Johnson

The beauty of Rav Yohanan is not mentioned because Rav Yohanan did not have splendor of face (a beard). — Maggie Anton

I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. — Margaret Deland

The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier. — Frank Serpico

And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some things haven't worked, and I'm sorry about that, but I keep trying.' And I'm - and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you're going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is. — Michael Bloomberg