Drvarov Oliver Quotes

#1. I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the burden since the death of Joseph. I throw myself at your feet, and wish to be one of your number, and be a mere member of the Church, and my mere asking to be baptized is an end to all pretensions to authority. - Author: Oliver Cowdery

#2. The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly. - Author: Oliver North

#3. It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing
her own version of resisting. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#4. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. - Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#5. British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death - Author: John Oliver

#6. People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#7. What is certain in the rational realm is by no means certain in the kingdom of swoon. - Author: Mary Oliver

#8. The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. - Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#9. I close my eyes. An image flashes - emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us.
Instead life has only grown harder. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#10. Amazing, isn't it? That hearts that once beat in sync could be so perfectly and forever separated. That's the whole process of life, I think: a long, slow process of separation. It can be cured only by the reabsorption into everything, into the single heartbeat of time. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#11. AND God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought ... - Author: Lauren Oliver

#12. Borders...exist by our own choosing. Whether you accept their jurisdiction is entirely up to you - Author: Oliver Broudy

#13. I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have. - Author: John Oliver

#14. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. - Author: Oliver Goldsmith

#15. He's the best person I've known in my life, I said on the night when the tiny fishing boat on which he had sailed out with Anchise early that afternoon failed to return and we were scrambling to find his parents' telephone number in the States in case we had to break the terrible news. - Author: Andre Aciman

#16. Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. - Author: Oliver Sacks

#17. Each of us, I had written, constructs and lives a "narrative" and is defined by this narrative. - Author: Oliver Sacks

#18. My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot. - Author: Oliver Sykes

#19. The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#20. As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself. - Author: Oliver Goldsmith

#21. I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life. - Author: Oliver Stone

#22. patients with aphasia and left-hemisphere lesions, says they have lost 'abstract' and 'propositional' thought - and compares them with dogs (or, rather, he compares dogs to patients with aphasia). - Author: Oliver Sacks

#23. There are certain scenes in the edit you're playing with it and certain scenes don't put back together the way you imagined. Sometimes they're better and sometimes they don't have that thing, so it's never foolproof. But you certainly get an idea that here we've got enough and we've got to move on because you're always against time and money there. Whatever the budget is, you have to get practical about it. - Author: Oliver Parker

#24. I walk in the world to love it. - Author: Mary Oliver

#25. She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#26. The scientific study of the relationship between brain and mind began in 1861, when Broca, in France, found that specific difficulties in the expressive use of speech, aphasia, consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisphere of the brain. - Author: Oliver Sacks

#27. Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity. - Author: Oliver Goldsmith

#28. and, sometimes,
from a lifetime ago
and another country
such a willing and lilting companion -

a song
made so obviously for me.
At what unknowable cost.
And by a stranger. - Author: Mary Oliver

#29. And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry ... - Author: Lauren Oliver

#30. I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would. - Author: John Oliver

#31. Funny, isn't it, how quickly the future becomes the past. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#32. We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come. - Author: Mary Oliver

#33. Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that. - Author: Oliver Jackson-Cohen

#34. But the feeling of a limb as a sensory and motor part of oneself seems to be innate, built-in, hardwired - and this supposition is supported by the fact that people born without limbs may nonetheless have vivid phantoms in their place.4 - Author: Oliver Sacks

#35. I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. - Author: Jamie Oliver

#36. Half inebriated, he vaulted up the stairs to find them lolling in chairs in the hall outside Maria's door. Gabe clasped a bunch of violets in his hand while Jarret held a rolled-up piece of parchment in his.
"What are you two louts doing here in the middle of the night?" he growled.
"It's nearly dawn," Gabe said coolly. "Hardly the middle of the night. Not that you would have noticed, in your drunken state."
Scowling, Oliver took a step toward them. "It's still earlier than you, at least, every rise."
Gabe glanced at Jarret. "Clearly, the old boy doesn't remember what today is."
"I believe you're right," Jarret returned, a hint of condemnation in his tone.
Oliver glared at them both as he sifted through his soggy brain for what they menat. When it came to him, he groaned. St. Valentine's Day. That sobered him right up. "That doesn't explain why you're lurking outside Maria's door."
Jarret cast him a scathing glance as he got to his feet. "Why do you care? You ran off to town to find your entertainment. Seems to me that you're relinquishing the field."
"So you two intend to step in?" he snapped.
"Why not?" Gabe rose to glower at him. "Since your plan to thwart Gran isn't working, and it's looking as if we'll have to marry someone, we might as well have a go at Miss Butterfield. She's an heiress and a very nice girl, too, in case you hadn't noticed If you're stupid enough to throw her over for a bunch of whores and opera dancers, we' - Author: Sabrina Jeffries

#37. Because I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him.
Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me. - Author: Lauren Oliver