Overalt Bench Quotes & Sayings

She couldn't catch you anyways! — Mercedes Lackey

When doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be a norm - because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the 'civilized' as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence. — Vinod Pande

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife. — Jenny Lewis

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet. — Paulo Coelho

Suddenly Sheikh Kharraqani appears, riding a lion,
firewood stacked behind him. His whip, a live serpent. Every sheikh rides a fierce lion,
whether you see it or not.
Know this
with your other eyes: There are thousands of lions
under your teacher's thighs and all of them
stacked with wood! — Rumi

Just those of us with sisters-in-laws who bounce off walls. I feel like I am watching a Ping-Pong ball. Settle down. — Christine Feehan

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will. — Swami Vivekananda

Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love. — Thomas Jay Oord

I can give you a better 'and then'," Ranger said. — Janet Evanovich

Thanks to Edward Snowden and others, the great threat from the NSA surveillance is now more clearly understood. Current attacks on our liberties very greatly infringe the freedoms meant to be protected by the First and Fourth Amendments. If a whistle-blower reveals the truth about wrongful government actions, calls arise to charge him with treason for hating America. Allies become enemies when it becomes known that we spy on them as well, as it has now been revealed. — Ron Paul

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have. — Merlin Olsen