Oxford Classics Quotes & Sayings

I have a dream! Because I have lived a nightmare. — Christopher Titus

When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would. If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care. — Alcoholics Anonymous

We get bored with everything, my angel, it's a law of nature: it's not my fault. — Laclos, Pierre Choderlos De

It's a terrible feeling to go to the funeral of someone whose voice you can't even remember. — Pierdomenico Baccalario

It's in great joy that we grasp truth. — Mark Leyner

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate. — Abraham Pais

This isn't funny. She was almost killed.'
'I'm aware. You're waiting to see if I will get angry.'
'I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.'
'I just need a name. — Derek Landy

He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse. — George Herbert

Glitter is like ... .little flecks of brilliance caught in a tube. — Katie Klein

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed. — Morton Blackwell