Famous Oklahoma Sooner Quotes & Sayings

Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good. — Shane Claiborne

How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality; narrowly or completely. — Bryant McGill

That's how ye do it,' his brother Ian had told him ... 'Ye find a way to live for that one more minute. And then another. And another ... But after a time, ye find ye're in a different place than ye were. A different person than ye were. And then ye look about and see what's there with ye. Ye'll maybe find a use for yourself. That helps. — Diana Gabaldon

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer. — Stephen Leigh

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got. — Rosamunde Pilcher

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world. — E.W. Howe

California Congressman — David McCullough

Dear God, please help me to love and value myself, and treat myself with loving care. Please help me to know that I deserve happiness (as we all do), and that I have the right to change my life in healthful ways. Thank you for supporting me as I stand in my power, strength, and love in my relationships and in my career, and for helping others to accept and support the changes that I need to make. — Doreen Virtue

There are those who work so they can stop.
Stopping is the why of work.
There are those who stop so they can work.
Working is the why of work. — Nick Cave

Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue." — John Eliot

God sends his messengers to those whose hardness and obstinacy he certainly knows and foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live. — Matthew Henry

Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble. (172) — Sherman Alexie

Charlotte blushed again and he laughed. Her cell phone rang and she tapped it and said, I'm okay, JP. I'll be home in ten minutes. — Kimball Lee