Epeli Hau'ofa Quotes

Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean.

Epeli Hau'ofa

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• In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • America
  • Success

• A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Manners
  • Even

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Character
  • Myself

• I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Books
  • Written

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kitchen

• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • School
  • Game
  • Giving

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Value

• Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Die
  • Waiting
  • Drinking

• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  

  Clive James
  • World
  • History

• In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

  

  Dido Armstrong
  • Famous

• If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time

• Marriage is a great institution.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Great
  • Marriage

• There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knowsIs some of it pr- No, 't is not even prose!

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Words
  • Gold

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Family
  • May
  • Humanity

• Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Thoughts

• The sigh that rends thy constant heartShall break thy Edwin's too.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean.

  

  Epeli Hau'ofa
  • Humanity
  • Ocean
  • Rising