Oaken Barrel Quotes & Sayings

The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience. — Marcus Aurelius

I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house. — Nina Conti

Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study of holy things, white-hot devotion to Jesus Christ, utter indifference to all material gain, and unremitting labor to rescue the perishing, perfect the saints, and glorify our sovreign Lord.
Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ. — John Piper

This give-and-take prepares children for the expectation of relationship with machines that is at the heart of the robotic moment. — Sherry Turkle

They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes. — Kenneth Williams

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan. — Robert Kuttner