Okegom Quotes

#1. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.

Eugene B. Sledge

#2. Living is something of an emergency anyway, but our struggles must usually be strenuously concealed. Our anxieties churn away within us, yet on the outside we must smile and deliver upbeat answers to enquiries about how we're doing.

Alain De Botton

#3. I would rather be right than President.

Henry Clay

#4. We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toomer

#5. I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

Eartha Kitt

#6. As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Nobody likes him now but the people,

Edmund Morris

#8. Flattery is never so obvious to the recipient.

Orson Scott Card

#9. And this is the straight dope, right here. These people are not exactly human. They don the dress but they're like monkeys dolled up in the circus. They're clever and can learn, but that is all.

Philip K. Dick

#10. I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

Michael Dirda

#11. Even if I did speak Irish, I'd always be considered an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it?

Brian Friel

#12. Beetroot Cossins had moved to Kuala Lumpur where she had died of lethargy and pie.

St John Morris

#13. The slingshot?" said Mrs. Wiggins. "Georgie's got it. We're going to take it down to the cow barn for safe keeping. Well, Alice, you're the judge and the jury, and if you say let him go - " She nodded to her sisters, who set Jimmy down and released his arms. The

Walter R. Brooks

#14. Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.

Kanye West