Okoye Things Quotes & Sayings

Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Okoye — Chinua Achebe

It's in the small moments that life is truly lived. — Marion Roach Smith

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk.
"I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest.
"Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc.
"No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe. — Chinua Achebe

You gotta live it to feel it,
you didn't you wouldn't
get it. — Eminem

Truth has not such an urgent air. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Thank you for riding the European Federation Maglev Train, — Marissa Meyer

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve. — Phil Gramm

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. — Felix Okoye

The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell farther in. — James S.A. Corey

When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa. — Ban Ki-moon

A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer. — Darlene Love

If we have the power and the means, then we must help. — Seth Adam Smith

practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how's, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and further distance you from your destination, but will also feed your mind with those fatal seeds of doubt that make failure inevitable" ~ Awaken and Unleash your Victor — Ogor Winnie Okoye