135th Kentucky Quotes & Sayings

A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHECKLIST If we want our kids to have a shot at making it in the world as eighteen-year-olds, without the umbilical cord of the cell phone being their go-to solution in all manner of things, they're going to need a set of basic life skills. Based upon my observations as dean, and the advice of parents and educators around the country, here are some examples of practical things they'll need to know how to do before they go to college - and here are the crutches that are currently hindering them from standing up on their own two feet: 1. An eighteen-year-old must be able to talk to strangers - faculty, deans, advisers, landlords, store clerks, human resource managers, coworkers, bank tellers, health care providers, bus drivers, mechanics - in the real world. — Julie Lythcott-Haims

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along. — Jody Watley

Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around. — Suman Pokhrel

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door. — Swami Vivekananda

Too much truth in the hands of a liar is more dangerous than a world of lies told to the truthful — Thomas R. Williams

If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed - Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish. — Neal Stephenson

The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger. — Miuccia Prada

Women's deference is rooted not only in their social subordination but also in the substance of their moral concern. Sensitivity to the needs of others and the assumption of responsibility for taking care lead women to attend to voices other than their own and to include in their judgement other points of view. — Carol Gilligan

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style. — Raymond Chandler

Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really ... — Patrick Stump

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. — Benjamin Tucker

Racket beer, sonny," he said sadly. "Tasteless as a roadhouse blonde." (Spanish Blood) — Raymond Chandler