Kenneth Oakley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

  • Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  • Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

  • When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

  • In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

  • My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  • Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

  • If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

  • I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

  • Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.