Oh Land Quotes
How many Lojbanists does it take to change a brokenlight-bulb?” goes the old Lojban joke. “Two: one to decidewhat to change it into and one to decide what kind of bulbemits broken light.
I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well.
To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.
You should have noticed by now, sometimes a monster looks just like any other man.
If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.
What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different from a firm's... the demand for food isn't elastic
Life gives you ups and downs. If you remember only the downs, you are not living your life.
What a lot of humans fail to see is that they don't need to do anything to be valuable--they already are.
A king who is renowned for mercy, " said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.
Optimal nutrition is eating the right things, in the right amounts, at the right time.
You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.
The problem with aging was not that death was near, for death was always near. The problem with aging was that a woman began to carry too many memories within her.
Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry
Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.
There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.
And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.
Family isn't blood, " she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.
Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency.
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences
The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.
Huh, ” groaned Father Gabe. “I sympathize with you, Tommy. Relationships can be a crap shoot. You think you’re going to roll a seven and up pops snake eyes.
You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!What has your politics fed onsince you've been ruling the world?On butchery and murder!
Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.
There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.
What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.
The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.
Remember to have courage, that is one of the few things that no one can ever take away from you.
Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly
America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.
