Oatey Quotes & Sayings

Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair. — Pico Iyer

She counted her blessings, rather than her misfortunes. — Callie Hunter

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs. — Michael Jordan

Attention, there was an incessant gnawing deep down inside my gut that — Rachel Renee Russell

A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information. — Malcolm Gladwell

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information? — Ryan Holiday

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays. — Benedict Cumberbatch

She's mine. And if any of you lay a hand on her, you lose that hand. And then lose your head. And once Feyre is done killing you, then I'll grind your bones to dust. — Sarah J. Maas

If the Greeks had left no tragedies behind for us, the highest reach of their power would be unknown. The three poets who were able to sound the depths of human agony were able also to recognize and reveal it as tragedy. The mystery of evil, they said, curtains that of which "every man whose soul is not a clod hath visions." Pain could exalt and in tragedy for a moment men could have sight of a meaning beyond their grasp. "Yet had God not turned us in his hand and cast to earth our greatness," Euripides makes the old Trojan queen say in her extremity, "we would have passed away giving nothing to men. They would have found no theme for song in us nor made great poems from our sorrows." Why is the death of the ordinary man — Edith Hamilton

I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride. — Tom Ford