Oliver Maria Quotes

You've been striking at her ghost, screaming, 'If you didn't want me to turn out like him, you should have stayed to stop me!'
As his throat worked convulsively, she covered his hands with hers. 'But she can't hear you. So all you're doing is trudging a path that isn't your own, growing more weary of it by the day, wanting more from your existence but believing you're cursed to having less. That is no sort of life for anyone ... '
'How can you have such faith in me?' he asked hoarsely. 'How can you believe in me when I've given you no reason?'
'You've given me plenty of reasons, but there's only one that matters. I love you, Oliver. I can't help myself. That is my reason. ~ Sabrina Jeffries

A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold. ~ Oliver DeMille

I was thinking of Lena. Of course. I was always thinking of Lena. ~ Lauren Oliver

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world. ~ Maria Popova

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. ~ Mary Oliver

Ruby stood beside Iris - holding a leash, and on the end of that leash was . . . Buford, Harriet and Oliver's motley dog. "Why does Ruby have Buford?" Oliver asked no one in particular. "Abigail needed something borrowed, and Buford was what she chose, but I'm not certain that exactly counts since she's not holding the leash," Harriet said in a hushed voice before she put her finger to her lips and nodded back to Abigail. As ~ Jen Turano

If it's true that men and women can be 'just friends' then how come all cheaters first start out as 'just friends? ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. ~ Maria Callas

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions. ~ Maria Borges

If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital. ~ Vaughan Oliver

It is better to not believe a truth than to believe a lie, because this defines yourself too. If you believe a lie that has negative effects, it shows you may have malicious intentions. But if you don't believe a truth that has negative effects, then you may be well-disposed. ~ Maria Karvouni

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. ~ Jose Maria Aznar

Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself. ~ Maria Shriver

Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us. ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe. Whatever names me, breaks me. The solution, your course, is "silence." But the truth is, anyone who knows your name can break you in two. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Whether you are surrounded by the singing of a lamp or the sounds of a storm, by the breathing of the evening or the sighing of the sea, there is a vast melody woven of a thousand voices that never leaves you and only occasionally leaves room for your solo. (Letters on Life) ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

What keeps you from ... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man. ~ Maria McCann

And those who come together in the night and are entwined in rocking delight do an earnest work and gather sweetnesses, gather depth and strength for the song of some coming poet, who will arise to speak of ecstasies beyond telling. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Visual illusions, too, fascinated me; they showed how intellectual understanding, insight, and even common sense were powerless against the force of perceptual distortions. Gibson's inverting glasses showed the power of the mind to rectify optical distortions, where visual illusions showed its inability to correct perceptual ones. ~ Oliver Sacks

No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace. ~ Maria Montessori

Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name ... Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Greatness is not in where we stand but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Adults want to talk about death way less than people my age do. Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away. Big bag over the shoulder, climbing up the chimney carrying everything in a person's life, and taking off, eight-reindeered, from the roof. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I implore those who love me to love my solitude. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Accept that I enjoy being with you. Accept that when I'm with you I see Heaven in your eyes. ~ Jana Oliver

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything. ~ Maria Montessori

Far commoner, and perhaps the most intolerable of all aura symptoms, is intense sudden vertigo accompanied by staggering, overwhelming nausea, and frequently vomiting. The ~ Oliver Sacks

You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotion. ~ Mary Oliver

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. ~ Barney Oliver

The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on. ~ Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I wonder if the bars make the monsters and not the other way around. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

My mother had soft hands that smelled like soap, and a smile like the first bit of sunlight creeping over a trimmed lawn. ~ Lauren Oliver

If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa ~ Maria Renteria

DAISIES

It is possible, I suppose that sometime
we will learn everything
there is to learn: what the world is, for example,
and what it means. I think this as I am crossing
from one field to another, in summer, and the
mockingbird is mocking me, as one who either
knows enough already or knows enough to be
perfectly content not knowing. Song being born
of quest he knows this: he must turn silent
were he suddenly assaulted with answers. Instead

oh hear his wild, caustic, tender warbling ceaselessly
unanswered. At my feet the white-petalled daisies display
the small suns of their center piece, their -- if you don't
mind my saying so -- their hearts. Of course
I could be wrong, perhaps their hearts are pale and
narrow and hidden in the roots. What do I know?
But this: it is heaven itself to take what is given,
to see what is plain; what the sun lights up willingly;
for example -- I think this
as I reach down, not to pick but merely to touch --
the suitability of the field for the daisies, and the
daisies for the field. ~ Mary Oliver

you are the leader you've been looking for ~ Maria Shriver

And suddenly I am blindingly angry at Raven
for her lectures, and her stubbornness, and for thinking that the way that you help people is by driving them against a wall, by beating them down until they fight back. ~ Lauren Oliver

Learning is knowledge and knowledge is freedom and power. He knew that. He had forgotten that, somehow. But he knew it once more. ~ Oliver Bowden

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.
- Oliver Hazzard-Perry ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore. ~ Lauren Oliver

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder. ~ Maria V. Snyder