Famous Mary Okoye Quotes & Sayings

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge; — Aristotle.

Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh. — Henry Louis Gates

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience. — Buchi Emecheta

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina. — Bob Ney

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head. — Joe R. Lansdale

Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. — Seth Godin

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself. — Alanis Morissette

All the pop psychologists are misleading people about things like guilt and conscience. Guilt is a noble emotion; the person without it is a monster.16 — Paul Pearsall

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation. — Joe Manchin

You soon learn there's no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes. — Mark Lawrence

Sometimes you almost forgot: that you didn't look like everyone else. In homeroom or at the drugstore or at the supermarket, you listened to morning announcements or dropped off a roll of film or picked up a carton of eggs and felt like just another someone in the crowd. Sometimes you didn't think about it at all. And then sometimes you noticed the girl across the aisle watching, the pharmacist watching, the checkout boy watching, and you saw yourself reflected in their stares: incongruous. Catching the eye like a hook. Every time you saw yourself from the outside, the way other people saw you, you remembered all over again. — Celeste Ng

The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination. Rain — Diana Gabaldon

She hung up and the room was a fist of silence. page 233 — William Kent Krueger

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity. — Margaret Thatcher

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool. — Srikumar Rao