Oxfam Shop Quotes & Sayings

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak. — Joe Namath

He is beautiful. — Lauren Oliver

I was relieved when I counted my shoes that there were less than 100 pairs. I lined them in three squadrons, ready for combat. The kamikazes in the vanguard were ready for the Oxfam shop. In the second chevron were the old favourites with heels worn down, their future in the balance. In the rear, with medal ribbons and fancy tooling, the Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks went back in the velvet bags and boxes they had come in. — Chloe Thurlow

The heart is a compass. It points you to the thing you love the most. — Holly Schindler

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people. — John F. Kennedy

It's alright. I mean, sex can be messy sometimes and these things happen and ... I really need to stop talking." Kyler chuckled deeply and then he kissed the tip of my nose. "Have I told you how adorable you are?" Adorable? I'd been aiming for sexy or hot. I shrugged one shoulder. "You're fucking adorable. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way. — Bram Cohen

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive. — J.G. Ballard

I want people to be true to themselves and believe in themselves. I want people to stop looking to celebrity idols and look to themselves instead, because we need real people to inspire us. — Jade Jagger

I'll never forget the first day in Auschwitz, the first time in Mauthausen. At that second place, as time wore on, I also picked them up from the bottom of the great cliff, when their escapes fell awfully awry. There were broken bodies and dead m sweet hearts. Still, it was better than the gas. Some of them I caught when they were only halfway down, Saved you, I'd think, holding their souls in midair as the rest of their being-their physical shells-plummeted to the earth. All of them were like, like the cases of empty walnuts. Smoky sky in those places. The smell like a stove, but still so cold. — Markus Zusak

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. — Albert Camus

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me. — Elizabeth Berg

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new. — Lily Donaldson

When I was halfway between one world and another, a moment of clarity broke through. This is what it was to die. * — Mary E. Pearson

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying. — C.S. Lewis

And in fact that selfsame strange urge I had when I was small - the desire to grant a second chance to something that could never have one - is still one of the urges that set me going today whenever I sit down to write a story. — Amos Oz