Oumy Touma Quotes & Sayings

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains. — Felix Baumgartner

Often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? — Thich Nhat Hanh

Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany any biographical or critical approach, it is that Kafka is not to be mistaken for the Kafkaesque. — Cynthia Ozick

I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. — Laurence Sterne

People are all there is to an organization — Gary Hamel

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you. — William DeWitt Hyde

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you. — Shakira

You have no idea how engrossing such a profession may become. Just as the blacksmith says: 'By hammer and hand all Art doth stand,' just as the baker thinks that all the solar system revolves around his morning delivery of rolls, as the postmaster-general believes that he alone is the preserver of society - and surely, surely, these delusions are necessary to keep us going. — Ford Madox Ford

A man must always take advantage of opportunities to piss and sleep. I've done the one, now it's time to do the other. — Hunter Shea

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. — Terry Pratchett