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“Oligarch globalist claim they want to help the poor through globalization! Klaus Schwab is the CEO of the WEF. Schwab is one of the globalist leaders who said "You'll own nothing. You'll be happy" It makes you wonder how this will help the poor who already have nothing? What a rich man know what means not to have anything?”
“Oligarchs, plutocrats, and kleptocrats are Machiavellian manipulators.
~ Ana Angelica Abaya van Doorn writing as Angelica Hopes
Onestopia
Book 3, Solo la verità è bella Trilogy”
“Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.”
Source: the new industrial state
“Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.”
“Olikhet är inte en politisk fråga, det är en utbildningsfråga.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Oliko Mr Bones enkeli, joka oli jäänyt vangiksi koiranruumiiseen? Siltä Willystä tuntui. Tehtyään kahdeksantoista kuukauden ajan hyvin läheisiä ja tarkkoja havaintoja hän oli siitä varma. Miten muuten selittyisi se taivaallinen sanaleikki, joka kaikui hänen korvissaan päivin ja öin? Sanoman tulkitsemiseksi ei tarvinnut kuin hiukan järjestellä kirjaimia uudelleen. Voisiko mikään olla ilmeisempää? Koira, dog, ja mitä seuraavaksi tuli? God, Jumala, koko totuus. Yhdellä vaatimattomimmista olennoista oli nimensä kautta yhteys kaikkein korkeimpaan, Luojaan.”
Source: Timbuktu
“Olin alkanut kuvitella katuja, joita pojat kulkevat. Käsitykseni poikien elämästä oli varsin liioiteltu ja sanalla sanoen mahtava. Minulla oli sellainen käsitys, että pojat ovat aina ulkona. Heillä on pallopelejä ja kiipeilyä, he kulkevat varjoissa rikkinäisissä farkuissaan, katsovat taloja ja omistavat ne. He juoksevat laumoissa niin kuin kulkukoirat tai sudet. He ovat nopeita. He voivat löytää toisen maailman, toisia olentoja, he ovat paikalla kun jotain tapahtuu ja sattuu kohdalle. Se elokuvan kohtaus, jossa polkupyörät nousevat ilmaan – se kertoi tästä.”
Source: Sinut on nähty
“Olin lyhyen ajan sisällä romahtanut kaksi kertaa. Siinä umpikujassa, niin nurkkaan ajautuneena, ei muuta ulospääsyä ollut. Myöhemmin elämäni varrella opin, että romahdus ei ole lainkaan huono vaihtoehto vaan minulle useimmiten ainoa tie eteenpäin, koska en koskaan oppinut ratkaisemaan juuri mitään joutumatta ensin umpikujaan.”
Source: Hämärän näkijä
“Olipa kerran tyttö,
joka ei tahdo olla prinsessa.
Olipa kerran tyttö,
joka ei opettele niiaamaan maahan saakka
ja olipa kerran tyttö,
jonka palmikoissa kiipeävät
kovakuoriaiset, muurahaiset, linnut.
Olipa kerran uusi satu,
joka on senpituinense,
sillä kaikella on mittansa ja määränsä.
Paitsi sudenkorennoilla, paitsi heinäsirkoilla,
paitsi västäräkkiparvilla,
tyttö huutaa.
Luomilla kasvaa ruoho,
luomet raskaana apilasta,
korvat raskaana kavioista,
tassuista, sorkista.
Tyttö kasvattaa kuonon,
sylkee marmorikuulia parvekkeelta ja kasvattaa suun
täyteen pedon puhetta.
Tytön äiti sanoo:
Puhu ihmisten kieltä, puhu asuinhuoneiden kieltä.”
Source: Kengitetyn eläimen jäljet
“Olipa kerran tyttö,
joka tahtoi olla prinsessa.
Pää 100% tylliä,
kahvipakettikruunu
ja taukoamaton polotus:
kerrokerrokuvastin
kerro kuka, arvaa kuka!
Herne patjan alla murenee tomuksi,
mutta tyttö juoksee yöt metsiä, suutelee
sammakoita ja sammakoilla kieli
vatsanpohjaan saakka.
Kokonaisen kesän tyttö roikottoo palmikoita vintin ikkunasta,
vaikka kylän pojat kivittävät ruudut rikki.
Tulee kuhmu ja tulee haava,
mutta prinsessaa ei tule.
Salaa
tytölle kasvaa villieläinsilmät ja säikyt jalat.
Silmissä villieläimet vaanivat
syli täynnä marmorikuulia
ja jokaisessa kuulassa tyttö, jota ei kohta ole,
sillä tyttöjen aika on nopea,
tyttöjen aika on villieläimen säikyt jalat.”
Source: Kengitetyn eläimen jäljet
“Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.”
“Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.”
“Olive oil is a bang for your buck oil.”
“Olive oil was everywhere. When she slipped, it was so graceful you'd think she was a ballerina.”
“Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.”
Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17
“Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At the end of each stunt he looked back, and each time she encouraged him. Afterward he said over and over, "She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. I tore up the rule book and she wanted more. Good Christ, what a pilot she would have made!”
Source: East of Eden
“Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.”
Source: Olive Kitteridge
“Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?”
Source: Carpe Corpus
“Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.”
“Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.”
“Oliver, calm down!” said Fred, looking slightly alarmed. “We’re taking Hufflepuff very seriously. Seriously.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Oliver came up to me and asked me to play something on the piano.
'What would you like?' I asked.
'Anything.'
This would be my thanks for the most beautiful evening of my life. I took a sip from my second martini, feeling as decadent as one of those jazz piano players who smoke a lot and drink a lot and are found dead in a gutter at the end of every film.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Oliver couldn’t walk away. Not when the wallflower needed rescuing. His goddamn Achilles heel, no matter how disastrous the outcome tended to be. He just wished his heroics would work out for once.
He kept his eyes trained on the pretty black-haired American, every muscle tensed for action. An eternity ticked by. No one approached her. She had no one to dance with, to talk to. She looked... lost. Hauntingly lonely. Frightened and defiant all at the same time.
’Twould be better for them both if he turned around right now. Never met her eye. Never exchanged a single word. Left her to her fate and him to his.
It was already too late.”
Source: The Earl's Defiant Wallflower
“Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.”
“Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.”
Source: That Book of Perfectly Useless Information
“Oliver Davenant did not merely read books. He snuffed them up, took breaths of them into his lungs, filled his eyes with the sight of the print and his head with the sound of words.”
Source: At Mrs Lippincote's
“Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an investment in it, an investment of himself.”
Source: Belgravia
“Oliver felt much more than sorry for Alice. His heart had grown ten sizes since he’d met her, and the hours he’d lost her had nearly broken him.”
Source: Furthermore
“Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.”
Source: Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
“Oliver, I don’t understand,” he said. “Why?”
“You know why.” I was done pretending otherwise.”
Source: If We Were Villains
“Oliver ignored Jane's hiss of rage. "Harriet's response shows you the true measure of her character. She might have suffered an unfortunate upbringing, but instead of becoming a lady possessed of questionable morals, she's honorable, charming, and I'm fortunate to have her in my life."
Right there and then, Harriet fell in love.”
Source: After a Fashion
“Oliver, it transpired, was addicted to alcohol and cocaine, and Gabriel was addicted primarily to Oliver; then, as an inevitable accompaniment, to Oliver’s own addictions, at first for Oliver’s approval, and later – as tended to be the case – because he couldn’t stop doing them.”
Source: Girl A
“Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.”
“Oliver knew that she had a long road ahead of her, learning to accept that the one person you wanted to love you the most was the one person who never would.”
Source: Other Birds
“Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.”
Source: Ghost Town
“Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.”
Source: Blue Bloods: Number 1 in series
“Oliver Marley supposed there were more dignified ways to end his life. A lifelong victim to the twin sins of an infertile imagination and pragmatism, the thought of travel simply never crossed his mind. Had it occurred to him, Oliver could have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, into the abyss of the Grand Canyon or said au revoir off the Eiffel Tower. But truth be told, Oliver never was much of a traveler. Even locally there were certainly higher quality casinos to choose from, taller parking garages from which to leap. Instead he found himself perched atop the nearest appropriately-sized structure to his home, that being the parking garage of the Circus Time Hotel & Casino. His view not of Alcatraz Island and the rough waters of the San Francisco Bay, nor the breathtaking vistas of the Arizona desert, or the romanticism of the Paris skyline for that matter. Rather he found himself bathed in a noxious blend of pink and green neon, staring into a pair of giant blinking pastel eyes belonging to the eighty-foot clown staring down at him like a frilly guardian angel. Then again, when your primary objective is to pancake yourself on a public sidewalk, perhaps you’re not in the best position to nitpick over the intricacies of what does and does not constitute bad taste. Oliver would just have to live with the clown, at least for another minute or two.”
Source: Marley
“Oliver McCall was someone who I never really got to know too well, and he had some well-publicized problems.”
“Oliver North says he is very upset that John Walker could come back to this country and cash in on his celebrity status. He hates to see someone who did something wrong get rewarded by writing a book or getting a TV show out of it.”
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“[…] Depois de algum tempo, de ter perguntado pelo Tô Manel a várias pessoas, lembrei-me de ir tentar a sorte no ponto de encontro. Meti-me na bicha e fui escutando os apelos que as pessoas iam fazendo em busca dos seus familiares: “me chamo Fololinda Gouveia, estou a precurar meu filho que desapareceu em oitenta e nove, nome dele mais conhecido é Joãozinho Gouveia, peço só nas pessoas que estão a me ouvir favor só de lhe falarem que mãe dele está lhe precurar, moro no Cazenga”; “Meu nome é André Sapanjo, estou a precurar minha mulher que fugiu com outro homem em noventa e dois, uma grande cabra!, perdão!, não era isso que queria dizer, faz só favor de cortar nesta parte, cabra era no antigamente, agora que estou com a palavra do Senhor no coração não lhe posso chamar nem de cabra nem de puta, ai! ai! ai!, corta, corta, corta só também nesta palavra de puta que é muito feia, já cortou?, hã, ok…, nome dela da minha santinha é Madalena, quero que ela volta, volta só mana Lena, minha fofinha, agora estou bem na vida, mijo forte, tenho carros nas lundas, aqui em Luanda tenho várias lojas e carros, vou te dar cama e mesa, vais ver só no amor que vou te dar, moro na Mabor!”; “Meu nome que me pusseram com ele no baptismo é Mana Maria Teresinha do Menino Jesus, diga?, juro mesmo é esse nome que me pusseram com ele!, me chamam também mana Teté, estou só a precurar no pai das crianças que ele me deixou quando quando foi na tropa em oitenta e nove, o nome dele?, o nome dele mesmo é Zeca, Zeca quê?, Zeca só!, o outro nome dele nunca lhe perguntei, mas está aqui foto dele, peço só para me falarem onde é que ele está, vivo ou morto!, Zeca vem só na casa, as crianças estão te chorar todos dias!, moro no Golfe perto da paragem dos autocarros.” Uma velha, de panos, falando umbundo, olhava atentamente para cãmera da TPA que fazia o registo dos apelos e gesticula como se estivesse a ver a imagem da pessoa que procurava reflectida no olhp da câmera: “ Onde é que andas meu Neto?, desde que foste na tropa não voltaste mais porquê?, te mataram nos bandidos ou quê?, fala só meu neto, fala, não faz mais sofrer na tua mãe e na tua avó, ouviste? Vem só na casa, estamos a morar na mesma casa aqui em Luanda, ele me ouviu né?, só logo a noite no Nação Coragem?, não faz mal, mas tenho certeza que está hora ele já me viu falar”. Quando chegou a minha vez exibi foto dele que dona Marília me tinha enviado com a carta, era uma foto muito antiga tirada nos anos sessenta que, talvez por isso, era capaz de não ajudar nada, o Tô hoje deve ter mais ou menos a minha idade, mas pronto, deixei a foto e a filiação dele, e acrescentei que ele devia de estar na província da Huíla, e a única forma de eu puder ser contactodo caso alguém soubesse do Tô era só memso na portária da Rádio. Pessoas que estvam por perto ainda se admiraram por um preto vir procurar paradeiro de um branco, por isso me olharam só dessas – as dúvidas. Sei que a foto dele passou várias vezes no Nação Coragem e depois, cerca de quarenta dias após minha ida no Ponto de Encontro, a Rádio pela mesma via mandou-me chamar: o Tô manel tinha morrido naufragado ao largo sudoeste da africano.[…]”
“Oliver reached up for my hand and led me back into the living room area. “Can we try something?”
I rolled my eyes. “Do I really have a choice?”
“You always have a choice, Novi,” Oliver said.”
Source: Falling Out of Focus
“Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.”
“Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When youre delivering your lines, hell stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If youre hoping for him to give you all the answers, then youre in for a long day.”
“Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.”
“Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?”
“Oliver Twist has asked for more!”
Source: Oliver Twist; or, The parish boy's progress
“Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up.
'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added, quoting Montaigne's all-encompassing explanation for his friendship with Etienne de la Boétie.
I was thinking, instead, of Emily Brontë's words: because 'he's more myself than I am.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and without parade as solid work as one can when one is occupied, one makes the best contribution possible to one's state.”
“Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.”
“Oliver's heart tried to pound its way out of his ribcage, but he ignored it. "I'm in love with Petunia," he announced. "And I want to help her.”
Source: Princess of the Silver Woods