Ousterhout Roio Quotes & Sayings

How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost - when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change? How long could you keep trying to save them, and when did you give up and grieve for them as though they were dead? — Rick Riordan

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me. — Paul Schrader

Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension. — John Carroll

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck. — Eminem

What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet. — John Adams

The world was cruel and sudden. This he knew for sure. Relax for a moment, breathe in the scent of a rose, rest in the shade, pet a dog, take a sip of lemonade, fall in love with a dreamy-eyed girl or a haunted faced man, and you are just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Buzzing around the lemonade, you'll find flies. Follow the flies and you'll find death. — Kathy Hepinstall

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. — Kahlil Gibran

Projects get sent to you, and you read them, and there's something for you there. There's something to be done. — Sylvain White

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century. — Adrienne Rich

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food. — Elizabeth Smart

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox. — Edward Jenner

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. — Tony Bennett

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel