Oh Land Quotes
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.
He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.
Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.
It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.
It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.
- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.
America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.
Sir, we have a saying in our country: ‘There’s no government, like no government.
I had but one love and it is gone and now there is nothing and I tell you, that is the most awful feeling in the world.
But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from society
Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists in its surrounding environment.
Friendship isn't measured in days, months or years, it's measured in the way someone makes you feel.
The first dance is the worst dance
You turned your head to the side. Faced me. Your eyes never left mine, I read them with ease. You said nothing to them, yet everything to me. I nodded.But only when no one was watching.
It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows…even if that one is you.
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.
Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly
Remember to have courage, that is one of the few things that no one can ever take away from you.
The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.
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.
There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.
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.
You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!What has your politics fed onsince you've been ruling the world?On butchery and murder!