Oprahside Quotes & Sayings

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble. — Periander

You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out. — Thomas Kinkade

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world. — Charles Kettering

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel. — Paul D. Boyer

I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior) — Barbara Kingsolver

You create your thoughts,
your thoughts create your intentions,
and your intentions create
your reality. — Wayne W. Dyer

A classroom is like a Greenhouse where the teacher must provide essential amenities like knowledge and life-skill with patience and empathy, control temperatures and provide adequate ventilation to release unwanted energies for everyone and everything to bloom. — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. — Anna Godbersen

It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped. — Archie Panjabi

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face
the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. — H. Beam Piper

Upon occasion, we misunderstand ourselves, or we lose faith. Whichever the case, we say things we think are true, only to find they are not. — Lisa Valdez

Fred Harrison explains in The Power in the Land how land values over time become so expensive that too little wealth is left to pay for goods and services. Real estate speculation allows property owners to demand tomorrow's wealth output today, because they have the power to withhold land from use in expectation of future gains. Artificial constrictions in the supply of land make the price increase at a rate the economy can't sustain. Land eventually becomes unaffordable and recession follows leading to a bust before the next boom commences. — Martin Adams

The house embodied for him the general blessedness of his life, which was manifest, really indisputable....he spoke of the house as if it were an old wife, beautiful for every comfort it had offered, for every grace, through all the long years. — Marilynne Robinson