Okkie Fourie Quotes & Sayings

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry. — Seth Godin

Before he died in 2013, the great sociologist Robert Bellah said that his view of everything he'd studied across his life was tilted on its axis by this late recognition: when mammals began to bring forth offspring from the center of their bodies, spiritual life became possible. With apes and far more with humans, the period of necessary parental care - care in order for the offspring to survive - became longer and longer. The long helplessness of the child generated a sphere of softening, experimentation, and creativity in self-understanding and shared life. This is the biological groundwork for the axial move - stepping out of fear and into care beyond one's self. The religions apprehended this long ago and wove it into language; compassion in both Hebrew and Arabic derives from the word for womb. — Krista Tippett

Life is about progress,
not perfection. — Kimberly Kolb

You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice
that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should. — Knut Hamsun

He was a Labour MP so I asked him if it was true the House of Commons was a form of poor relief for the otherwise unemployable... — Robert Robinson

A good story is a journey...the destination is only where it ends. — Alan Smithee

Laziness is the curse of someone who has no dreams. — Vinita Kinra

Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood. — Ariel Levy

Road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him - not hunger, not cops, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself. A crackerjack — Christopher Paul Curtis

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute. — Will Rogers

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics] — Niels Bohr

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together. — Drake

The Monarchy ... is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment — Kingsley Martin

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue. — Ralph Hall

Know why transparency's a beautiful thing? Transparency means no shame. — Richard Castle