Ou Southern Quotes & Sayings

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. — Peter Bogdanovich

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched. — Jake Halpern

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence. — RJ Mitte

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! — Theophile Thore

Why did I think back then, that happiness was always just ahead in the future, when I would be an adult, able to make my own decisions, go my own way, be my own person? Why had it seemed that being a child was never enough? — V.C. Andrews

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different. — Paulo Freire

I call it improper pride to let fool's notions hinder you from doing a good action. There's no sort of work," said Caleb, with fervor, putting out his hand and moving it up and down to mark his emphasis, "that could ever be done well, if you minded what fools say. You must have it inside you that your plan is right, and that plan you must follow. — George Eliot

Carlyle spread her hands. 'I speculated that it was the remains of the starship that took the Eurydiceans to the planet. This seems to have been borne out.' She smiled. 'It transmitted a defensive virus that contained Microsoft patches. — Ken MacLeod

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. — Jonathan Safran Foer

They are our brothers, these freedom fighters ... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong. — Ronald Reagan

I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me. — Justin Trudeau