Okie 811 Quotes & Sayings

I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never really turn my phone off. — Meryl Davis

This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything. — Dennis Lehane

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America. — Monica Crowley

My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence. — Jill Shalvis

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them? — Kiran Desai

A good rule for mental conduct - think whatever it makes you truly happy to think. — Susan Gregg

I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess ... We found our refuge in science ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred. — Freeman Dyson

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune ... — Jose Saramago

When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works.
And the hundredth boy?
We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one. — Mary Doria Russell

It would only be in the cold gaze of hindsight that I would be able to comprehend that while in flight from pain, I became an agent of it. — Charles M. Blow