Denegri O Quotes & Sayings

The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective. — Randy Pausch

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him. — Wayne Dyer

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam. — Tariq Ramadan

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted. — James Connolly

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is. — Buffalo Bill

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. — Morris Chestnut

You might be a redneck if you look upon a family reunion as a chance to meet 'Ms. Right — Jeff Foxworthy

I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it and so do your friends and family. I knew before I was funny I was very annoying so I have that covered. I think it was because I was not very good in school I used humor as a defense mechanism. When I started doing plays and stuff at school I decided that I was going to keep doing it until someone tells me to stop and get a real job. — Joel McHale

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times. — Jaime Winstone

He had no idea of the impression he was making and cared less...He was finally an Angel, as I always knew he would become; but like any Angel he still had rages and furies... — Jack Kerouac

Life is much like a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions. We are acutely aware that we need to know a great deal if we are to understand the few confusing minutes that we do watch. Of course, we don't know exactly what it is that we don't know, so we can't frame the question well. We ask, What is the meaning of life? — Jonathan Haidt

Have high hopes for the future; take action and it will be a reality. — Debasish Mridha

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved? — Patrick DeWitt

When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possible, and anything from 18 inches to 3 foot long; he shows it to each guest in turn, and says: "Look upon this body as you drink and enjoy yourself; for you will be just like it when you are dead."
[Herodotus 'Histories', II 82] — Herodotus