George Oppen Quotes

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

Don't be afraid of me. I'm a law maker I'm not a law breaker.

Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.