Michael Ondaatje Quotes

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Michael Ondaatje

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• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Good
  • Speak
  • Shopping

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Want
  • Fear

• Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Why
  • Fall
  • Stand

• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Write
  • Someone

• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Men

• When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Remember
  • High
  • Couple

• No matter who we are or where we live, we all share a basic concern for the safety and well-being of our young people. Their welfare is the most telling measure of our nation's success - and their potential is the most promising element of its future. It is up to us - all of us - to safeguard that future.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Family
  • Job
  • Feeling

• I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • She
  • Marriage

• Age doesn't affect driving - how do you like that?

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Age
  • Driving

• As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

  

  John Calvin
  • Soul
  • Grace
  • Image Of God

• It's not about love. Of course I love the little shit. But he knows too much about me that no one else on the planet knows, and when he's around I have no choice but to think about everything I hate about myself and my past. He's a gangrenous leg attached to my psyche, and I need to hack him off before he infects my whole fucking soul.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Soul
  • Choice
  • Planet

• Sing your song, unforgiving siren,Part the curtain clouds with your faithful entrance,And clear your voice.Pour your song of milk onto this land of yours.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Song
  • Clouds

• Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

  

  Danah Boyd
  • Technology
  • Continue
  • Privacy

• From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

  

  Michael Ondaatje
  • Soul
  • Loses
  • Whispered