Off Quotes - page 3

Only lies and evil come from letting people off. (Iris Murdoch)
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. View quote
Willa Cather
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? View quote
Jeanette Winterson
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!' View quote
Emo Philips
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. View quote
Woody Allen
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness? View quote
Sally Struthers
I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do? View quote
Harry Dean Stanton
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. View quote
George Herbert
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with. View quote
W. C. Fields
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country. View quote
Bobby Fischer
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. View quote
Russell Baker
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. View quote
Hillary Clinton
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. (Mark Twain)
What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds. View quote
Robert Orben
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures. View quote
François Mauriac
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. View quote
Jean Cocteau