Okky Dan Quotes & Sayings

Defeat is not worth thinking about. — Alan Shearer

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. — William Hazlitt

The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal. — Leo Buscaglia

I will not subject you to a restraint, in the manner of scriptures and ancient works, by stating that you should trust what I say, that my words are apocalyptic; and that if you do not believe me, you will become atheists and go to hell. If what I say is not agreeable to your instinct, knowledge, experience and inquiry, reject it. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody. — William Ernest Henley

When someone express violence or meanness,
don't hate him, win him with love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.
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You have probably never experienced in yourself the meandering roots of a whole watershed or felt your outstretched fingers touching, by some clairvoyant extension, the brooks of snow-line glaciers at the same time you were flowing toward the Gulf over the eroded debris of worn-down mountains. — Loren Eiseley

Spring time is a refreshing time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Twitter and Facebook and all of this stuff is, to me, I mean it's, for some reason - I'm probably not the youngest person using it. But for some reason, it works very well. I'm setting records. — Donald Trump

Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending. — Teresa Mummert

Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny. — Assata Shakur

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. — Leigh Hunt

You know, I'm too old to be an Eminem guy, but I love the back beat of that song. And he walks into the Fox Theatre and a black gospel choir is rising in song. And he turns to the camera and says ... — David Maraniss

That's what seems the most sad to me - that neither of them even think there's a possibility they can be together. — Jessi Kirby