Overshel Quotes & Sayings

Do you know how I picture God myself?" he said. "As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as one single fish would deposit its spawn in the sea. He creates because it is His function as God to do so, but He does not know what He is doing and is stupidly prolific in His work and is ignorant of the combinations of all kinds which are produced by His scattered germs. — Guy De Maupassant

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. — Pamela Stephenson

I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it. — Chris Gethard

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love. — Gloria Trevi

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton

No one can see me, no one knows me;
All men are deaf, no ears disclose me — Taras Shevchenko

ALREADY KNOW the camp on the moors. It was here that Himmelstoss gave Tjaden his education. But now I know hardly anyone here; as ever, all is altered. There are only a few people that I have occasionally met before. I go through the routine mechanically. In the evenings I generally — Erich Maria Remarque

I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what got me my start. I do everything I can to keep it alive since it made me feel like I had something to give to the world. I also support the Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school in Central Falls run by a friend of mine that my niece attends. I'm committed to that because of its proven results. They have the highest math scores of any charter school in Rhode Island. — Viola Davis

He turned and saw her. Ah! She was lovely, lovelier now than ever he thought. But he could not speak to her. He could not interrupt her. He wanted urgently to speak to her now that ames was gone and she was alone at last. But he resolved, no; he would not interrupt her. She was aloof from him now in her beauty, in her sadness. He would let her be, and he passed her without a word, though it hurt him that she should look so distant, and he could not reach her, he could do nothing to help her. And again he would have passed her without a word had she not, at that very moment given him of her own free will what she knew he would never ask, and called to him and taken the green shawl off the picture frame, and gone to him. For he wished, she knew, to protect her. — Virginia Woolf

An animal?" Thorne said, and she realized he'd been waiting for her to further explain what she was seeing.
"It has long legs and horns and ... and it's beautiful."
"Oh, good, we're back to this, then. — Marissa Meyer

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act. — Fernando Pessoa

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does. — Stanley Elkin

The truth, however, was stranger still. — Dan Brown

He remembered declaring that he would come back to her, but not very much else. — J.G. Farrell