Okulumuz Quotes & Sayings

He knows the universe and does not know himself. — Jean De La Fontaine

An individualist town councillor will walk along the municipal pavement, lit by municipal gas and cleansed by municipal brooms with municipal water and - seeing by the municipal clock in the municipal market, that he is too early to meet his children coming from the municipal school, hard by the country lunatic asylum and the municipal hospital, will use the national telegraph system to tell them not to walk through the municipal park, but to come by the municipal tramway to meet him in the municipal reading-room, by the municipal museum, art-gallery, and library, where he intends ... to prepare his next speech in the municipal town hall in favor of the nationalization of canals and in increase of Government control of the railway system. "Socialism, Sir," he will say, "don't waste the time of a practical man by your fantastic absurdities. Self-help, Sir, individual self-help, that's what has made our city what it is. — Sidney Webb

If your lives connect with other people you have influence. — Johnny Hunt

The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation. — Peter Medawar

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there. — William Sansom

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time. — Walter Scott

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us. — Philibert Joseph Roux

Nothing is inevitable with relationships. — Lorenzo Lamas

Never in my life had I been more frustrated. Go figure it wouldn't be with a human but a freaking alien. At least I now knew that the male species were asses no matter what planet they hailed from. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying. — Chaka Khan

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything. — Elton John

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards. — Alfie Kohn

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes. — Bruce Robinson

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. — Truman Capote

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. — Wendell Berry