Biodun Okeowo Quotes

#1. Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

Mo Yan

#2. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Henrik Ibsen

#3. Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.

Chungliang Al Huang

#4. Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

Andrew Davidson

#5. Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe.

Archibald MacLeish

#6. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

James Cook

#7. There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Tara Brach

#8. There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery.

Justina Chen Headley

#9. People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.

L.M. Montgomery

#10. In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

Robert Heilbroner

#11. The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.

Stephen Beal