Okonkwo Being Strong Quotes & Sayings

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. — Thomas Reid

The critics say that epics have died out with Agamemnon and the goat-nursed gods; I'll not believe it. I could never deem as Payne Knight did, that Homer's heroes measured twelve feet high. They were but men: -his Helen's hair turned grey like any plain Miss Smith's who wears a front; And Hector's infant whimpered at a plume as yours last Friday at a turkey-cock. All heroes are essential men, and all men possible heroes: every age, heroic in proportions, double faced, looks backward and before, expects a morn and claims an epos. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith. — Saint Augustine

We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important. — Martin Fry

Yes, nature has two faces: The pretty one and the ugly one, the disasters! Love the first face and be prepared for the second one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15. — Johnny Winter

The Western world may have been undergoing a steady transformation, the young may have thought they had discovered a new way of talking to each other, the old barriers were said to be crumbling from the base. But the famous 'hand on the shoulder' was still applied, perhaps less frequently, perhaps with less pressure. — Ian McEwan

I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation.' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with animals. I have a passion for animals. Maybe I would've become a veternarian. — Andreas Deja