Oikos University Quotes & Sayings

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. — L. Frank Baum

Throw stones, make waves. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Vikki Wakefield

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say. — Max Lucado

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it. — David Copperfield

Did you freak out when she called?"
"I cried for three hours."
"Oh, Dad... — Rainbow Rowell

I came like water, and like wind I go — Kerry W. Thornley

Death realigns roles according to a formal order of importance. — Paolo Giordano

Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But not for the first time, such giving was not pain. He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than life itself - clothes upon the body of his son. — Pearl S. Buck

I think supporting casts in comics are missing. I think a lot of the time in comics, all we have are people in costumes talking to other people in costumes, superheroes talking to superheroes and supervillains, and that's it. — Geoff Johns

We search our entire lives to create a genuine and reliable self that can relate with other people and faithfully express our artistic temperament. Our battle for personal authenticity requires us to penetrate layers of self-deception, conquer ego defense mechanism, and destroy a false self that is intent upon meeting other people's expectations. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus

You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you — Kenneth Eade

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. — Dalai Lama

I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted. — Joan Didion