FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover ... (Thomas Merton)

But influential business leaders were eager proponents of numbers-driven merit pay for teachers. Ross Perot, for example, pushed Dallas to implement a plan to use test scores alone to evaluate ... (Dana Goldstein)

Because our hearts are unprepared for truth, we cling to the deception as a shipwreck victim on a storm-tossed sea will grab at anything that floats. But the splintered rubble ... (Penelope J. Stokes)

For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy. But then he forgot all those promises he made. He forgot why he loved me. He simply ... (Terry McMillan)

It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of ... (Archibald Rutledge)

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. ... (Theodore Roosevelt)

Today is a new day! Let today be the day you free your mind from the prison of self doubt. Your thoughts can either hinder you or propel you to ... (Amaka Imani Nkosazana)

Those who reinforce the disintegrating elements in our society will get no thanks from future generations. The family becomes the ultimate victim of homosexuality, a result which any society can ... (Abram Kardiner)

A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by ... (Louis Agassiz)

I'm not a make-up person, but I love wearable products that are easy to use, with fun packaging. ... (Charlotte Ronson)

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. ... (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. ... (George Gershwin)

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't ( ... ) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a ... (Douglas Coupland)

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do. ... (Tonya Hurley)

There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste ... (Rob Bell)

Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke. ... (Thom Yorke)

Individuals who rate high on the so-called Anxiety Sensitivity Index, or ASI, have a high degree of what's known as interoceptive awareness, meaning they are highly attuned to the inner ... (Scott Stossel)

The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones. ... (Ken Kesey)

Aren't you sentient human beings? Or are you living like animals for the moment only? In that case by all means indulge in charity and cure each petty suffering that ... (Albert Camus)

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that ... (Jean Kerr)

Will there be enough to go around, or must we compete for our kills?" "Unfortunately, I suspect there will be plenty, but that really depends on how many of you ... (Rachel Vincent)

If that's how you'd rather remember it. But I did not mean that as a reproach. I do not, in truth, think less of you for having the common sense ... (Sharon Kay Penman)

There is a phrase of facile liberality uttered again and again at ethical societies and parliaments of religion: "the religions of the earth differ in rites and forms, but they ... (G.K. Chesterton)

We gathered up the kids and sat up on the hill. We had no time to get our chickens and no time to get our horses out of the corral. ... (Bill Lambrecht)

If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting. You want change, make some. ... (Courtney C. Stevens)

I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the ... (Mark Margolis)

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. ... (Debbie Stabenow)

The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation. ... (Neale Donald Walsch)

An aspiring writer could be forgiven for thinking that learning to write is like negotiating an obstacle course in boot camp, with a sergeant barking at you for every errant ... (Steven Pinker)

When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each ... (Jennifer Lawrence)