Oakpaw Warrior Quotes & Sayings

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all — David Platt

Black-and-white chickens stagger around Colonial Dunsboros, chickens with their heads flattened. Here are chickens with no wings or only one leg. There are chickens with no legs, swimming with just their ragged wings through the barnyard mud. Blind chickens without eyes. Without beaks. Born that way. Defective. Born with their little chicken brains already scrambled. There's an invisible line between science and sadism, but here it's made visible. — Chuck Palahniuk

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war. — Esther Duflo

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems. — Paulo Coelho

I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them. — Clyde Edgerton

So, to return to the title chapter, what is the point of learning statistics? To summarize huge quantities of data. To make better decisions. To answer important social questions. To recognize patterns that can refine how we do everything from selling diapers to catching criminals. To catch cheaters and prosecute criminals. To evaluate the effectiveness of policies, programs, drugs, medical procedures, and other innovations. And to spot the scoundrels who use these very same powerful tools for nefarious ends. — Charles Wheelan

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka. — Serj Tankian

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies. — Tony Judt

When reality and your dreams collide, typically it's just your alarm clock going off. — Crystal Woods

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man. — Romain Gary

We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope. — Anna Chlumsky

'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen. — Manny Farber

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living? — Nicholson Baker

ball so hard, weezy tryn to find me — Lil' Wayne