Oakie Quotes

#1. That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.

Shantideva

#2. I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

Lewis Hamilton

#3. The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed - but survivable.

Alain De Botton

#4. Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in
the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

Irvin D. Yalom

#5. Calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

#6. The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

Eveline Herfkens

#7. I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think ...

John Green

#8. I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

George Carlin

#9. The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

Mitt Romney

#10. Self-evidence, of which Russell has said so much, can only be discarded in logic by language itself preventing every logical mistake. That logic is a priori consists in the fact that we cannot think illogically.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

Merle Haggard

#12. Help yourself and God will help you

Joan Of Arc