Omni Quotes

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control. - Chuck Palahniuk

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. - Sissela Bok

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in addition, cruelty. God has made them in his own image, with his own perfections; no one wants to be reminded how hard it is to reconcile the undeniable existence-in spite of all the protestations of Christian Science-of evil with His omnipotence and supreme goodness. - Sigmund Freud

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride . . . the omnipotence of clear thinking . . . belief in the absolute power of logic. - Alexis Carrel

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. - Eric Alterman

This research, the U.S. portion of a global omnibus study, reinforces that this is a complicated and evolving marketplace. Consumers have a strong preference for print Yellow Pages. However, for local advertisers targeting certain demographic segments, online media should factor strongly in the promotional mix. - Neal Polachek

Things are too fluid to be creating restrictive laws. We talk about scalable servers and scalable sites. That's what should be going on in the legislative process rather than these omnibus, let's-do-it-all-in-one-fell-swoop pieces of legislation. - Skip Lockwood