“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
After you die you turn into pizza the flavor of your soul. Evil people get olives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Olive Garden is bringing back its 'Pasta Pass,' which lets you eat as much pasta as you want for seven weeks.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms,… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties? — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent,… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth… — John Green Copy Share Image
There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image