Olaotan Fawehinmi Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sequel to Albert Einstein's quote "education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school," beauty is what remains inside a body after it has wrinkled. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

What is she to you anyway?"
"Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch. — Leigh Bardugo

Friendship! That bond shared, not with the one you see every day but with the one that has got your back any day.
Well, that seems so hard to find these days.
So just be the best friend to yourself until you have found a best friend like yourself. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

It'd taken only a few hours, but I felt like Michelangelo staring at the Sistine Chapel after four years of hard labor, like Banksy after spending six days searching the Internet for ideas to steal and three minutes of sidewalk vandalism to execute them. — Paul Beatty

A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

raise the affections of my hearers as high as I possibly can, provided they are affected with nothing but truth, and with affections that are not disagreeable to the nature of what they are affected with."1 — Bob Kauflin

To be Outstanding is to do the same thing others have done in a different way.
But to STAND-OUT is to do what no one has ever done before.
Being outstanding is good, but STANDING-OUT is better.
So Dream, Explore, Discover, and Stand Out!!! — Olaotan Fawehinmi

Once upon a time, a wise man said, "I have nothing to say!"
Wisdom does not always talk, it talks at the right time, saying the right words. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so. — Agatha Christie

The astronaut in his technical and complex machine, effortlessly orbiting the earth, alone and weightless in the emptiness of space, is the perfect symbol of man today. Despite our domination of the forces of nature and our highly developed technology, we have come to feel ourselves as empty, alienated, anxious, and lonely, without any real inner purpose or meaning to our existence. — Stephen Batchelor

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients. — Mario Batali

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. — Marcus Valerius Martial

Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her. — Barbara Pym

A Happy Love-Life happens to the one who works hard at what he KNOWS about it. In all thy getting, get Knowledge. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

Anything you do fearless, you do in mediocrity. — Suzanne Evans

A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it. — Alexis Taylor

The only thing that stands in the way of an amazing life are the excuses you tell yourself as to why you can't achieve it — Steven Aitchison

Whenever we are in the box, we have a need that is met by others' poor behavior. And so our boxes encourage more poor behavior in others, even if that behavior makes our lives more difficult. — The Arbinger Institute