Bekir Okan Quotes & Sayings

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road. — Chris Matakas

Juggling is an illusion ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession ... It is actually task switching. — Gary Keller

You can't make a date in death's dateless night. — Joe Haldeman

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing? — Goldie Hawn

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. — Michele Bachmann

If one of your dream dies, dare to dream another. You stop living when you dream no more! — Timothy Pina

I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you as fast as he can and lets you alone. The politician robs you and stands there and insists he did it for your own good. — Raymond C. Hoiles

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white. — Gene Luen Yang

My wife tries to murder me every other week. A few of those times, have in fact led to combat ... amongst other things. — J.J. McAvoy

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon) — Bum Phillips

If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company. — Paul Polman

After the sudden release of the laughter, he was trembling. All his body seemed growing weak. He felt, almost physically, more barriers breaking
those necessary barriers of defense, built up through the months of loneliness and desperation. He must touch another human being, and he put forward his hand in the old conventional gesture of the handshake. She took it, and doubtless as she noticed his trembling, she drew him toward a chair and almost pushed him into it. As he sat down, she patted his shoulder lightly.
She spoke again, once more neither questioning nor commanding: "I'll get you something to eat."
He did not protest, though he had just eaten heartily. But he knew that behind her quiet affirmation lay something more than any call of the body for food. There was need now for the symbolic eating together, that first common bond of human beings
the sitting at the same table, the sharing of bread and salt. — George R. Stewart

My Prayer? Oh' Lord give me the mind of a warrior that has been taught to fear your name, The soul of a prophet with the tongue and courage to speak truth though I be surrounded by those that despise it and the heart of a boy that believes he can slay a giant — Tonny K. Brown

Hope is what one relies on when one has no control of one's fate. We, my dear, have nothing in common with those who rely on hope, Thaddeus proclaimed. — Mayandree Michel