Ovean Quotes & Sayings

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. — George Saunders

Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks. — Mao Zedong

IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country — Charles Dickens

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give. — Henry David Thoreau

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. — Gayle Forman

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical. — Stephen Hawking

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. — Emile M. Cioran