Oafish Quotes

#1. I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.

Steven Morrissey

#2. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan

Amy Tan

#3. Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.

Miguel Syjuco

#4. What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#5. understanding. As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently." Attending to the Little Things

Stephen R. Covey

#6. She moved as fast as her feet could carry her, for what reason she had no certainty of.
The only certainty was going forward.

R.R. Washburn

#7. Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

Rowan Williams

#8. I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

Sam Mendes

#9. Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Tom Lehrer

#10. An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Nick Cave

#11. At the end of all rationality, there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure. Ruth

Ken Liu

#12. We agree that it's the same for everyone; not only for us here, but everywhere, for everyone who is of our age; to some more, and to others less. It is the common fate of our generation.

Erich Maria Remarque

#13. There is no future for those who cannot or will not think.

Louis O. Kelso

#14. Success comes from people (leaders) who are motivated by the change, not who need to be motivated by the change.

Amit Chatterjee

#15. Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day ... Never surrender.

Ziad K. Abdelnour