Preuit Oaks Quotes

#1. Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. To know others is wisdom;
To know yourself is enlightenment;
To master others requires force;
To master yourself requires true strength.

Lao-Tzu

#3. Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#4. I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

Serj Tankian

#5. Make sure people learn and grow from mistakes, and that they share that learning. But, don't accept the same mistake twice. Only make new mistakes.

Phil Dourado

#6. No secrets, no mystery. no mystery, no life worth rememberin'. no life worth rememberin', no life worth goin' on.

Robert James Waller

#7. Blessed are those who have no talent!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

Jessica Pare

#9. All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

Steven Erikson

#10. The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

Hans Bellmer

#11. A Person is Not Big or Small from Height or Weight.
It's the Thoughts of a Person that Makes him Small or Big.
You can Assess a Person only from Heights of his Thoughts ...

Saurabh Dudeja

#12. I thought you were no longer tempted to partake."
"I wasn't, until Preshea came along and stole him away from me."
"Dimity!"
"Well, it's true. I'm a terribly, terribly shallow person."
Pillover nodded into his gruel.

Gail Carriger

#13. Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Bill Hybels

#14. Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

David Plotz