There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.


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Every venue should be ready before the Games, leaving us enough time -- even if it's little time -- ...
DENIS OSWALD
As long as they can still compensate with work on Saturdays and Sundays I think it won't be a proble...
DENIS OSWALD
According to the world code, that laboratory should have ensured the anonymity of the samples used i...
DENIS OSWALD
Preparing for the Games requires a team effort: the group named today as Coordination Commission can...
DENIS OSWALD
The situation in Greece was very specific, very political, which explained what happened. We tried t...
DENIS OSWALD
I don't see any risk. There is too much at stake, the image of the country is at stake, and really I...
DENIS OSWALD
It's boding well for the future.
DICK OSWALD
There are people I know that just lie spellbound on the ice looking down the hole. One fellow gets o...
DICK OSWALD
The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
MARINA OSWALD
If you want to make a difference, think different
PALLE OSWALD
Tell God you are ready to be poured out as an offering, and God will prove Himself to be all you eve...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which gove...
OSWALD MOSLEY
When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose f...
OSWALD MOSLEY
Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives. The true union of Europe; the union o...
OSWALD MOSLEY
God does not give us overcoming life— He gives us life as we overcome.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...
OSWALD SPENGLER
Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
MARINA OSWALD
Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right wi...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?
OSWALD C. HOFFMAN
Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard wor...
OSWALD C. HOFFMAN
They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In r...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers a...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
A lot of what I do in the book is debunk these conspiracy theories,
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
Whenever you fall, pick up something
OSWALD THEODORE AVERY
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
of sound mind, but very strong-willed, and if his request for permission to remain in the USSR were ...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revo...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirm...
OSWALD THEODORE AVERY
Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require ...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol int...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a ...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker, I have lived in a decadent capitalist soci...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL
I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
ALICE WALKER
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER
Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ...
ALICE DREGER
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON
It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
ALICE SEBOLD
My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ...
ALICE BRAGA
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int...
ALICE MCDERMOTT
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER
We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
ALICE BLOCH