Oupa Thomas Quotes & Sayings

When the surgeon general [Joycelyn Elders] said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired. — Snoop Dogg

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true. — Matthew Quick

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. — Ernest Bevin

Perhaps his only vice was self-satisfaction--which few will admit to be a vice; remonstrance never reached him; to himself he was ever in the right, judging himself only by his sentiments and vague intents, never by his actions; that these had little correspondence never struck him; it had never even struck him that they ought to correspond. — George MacDonald

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you. — Benny Bellamacina

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause. — Samantha Power

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up. — Yehuda Berg

Someone else knows," I said. "The three most dangerous words in the secrecy business. But there it is. I know, and Ms. Nice knows. Which is why we came back with the RAF. Because where would your plane have landed? Guantanamo, maybe. But it didn't, and we're back in America, free and clear. And we know. I'm sure you could crush Ms. Nice's career, but you'll never find me. I'll always be out there. And you know me, General. You've known me a long time. I don't forgive, and I don't forget. And I won't have to do much. Talking might be enough. Suppose the SVR found out it was you who got Khenkin killed? Some of those IOUs might get canceled. And they might retaliate. Rumors might start, about poor old Tom O'Day, who got so desperate he came up with a cockamamie scheme. — Lee Child

some poems froth
and foam and rise...

out of my morning cup of
mist-sweetened coffee. — Sanober Khan

because pollutants released by cars in the morning are converted into ozone later in the day. What researchers discovered about daily shifts in air quality during the 17 days of the Games was remarkable: Even though it was humid and sticky and temperatures hovered in the mid-80s, ozone dropped by 27 percent — Linda Marsa

It's a mercy," he said. "He's dead already. — George R R Martin

I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine. — Neale Donald Walsch