Oiled Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization…
— Olof Palme
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One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young…
— Robert Bork
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Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go…
— Janet Lembke
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The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground,…
— Marcus Luttrell
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
— Wally Lamb
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If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
— Ellen Swallow Richards
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled, keep it loaded,…
— Max Brooks
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One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the…
— Maurice Sendak
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My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution…
— Camille
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I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have…
— Prabal Gurung
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I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing…
— Bill Bradley
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When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up…
— Jeff Lynne
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Fast & Furious' is a well-oiled machine. Those guys really know what they're doing. The guys that work behind the scenes are just as important…
— Laz Alonso
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Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.
— John Keats
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as…
— Kate Winslet
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Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt…
— Ernest Hemingway
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All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a…
— Libba Bray
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How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
Who Wrote These Oiled Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Oiled Quotes as follows: