Patchell Olson Quotes & Sayings

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice. — Marianne Williamson

Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this? — Noam Chomsky

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. — Richard Whately

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions. — Marty Neumeier

The rules of the jungle did not apply to those who wrote the rules of the jungle. — Alexander McCall Smith

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true. — Mark Thomas

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. — Kurt Vonnegut

I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture. — Holly Hunter

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. — Cecil Rhodes

I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast. — Andrew Mason

'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other. — Charlie Pierce

You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending. — Avril Lavigne

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love. — W.E.B. Du Bois