20week Quotes & Sayings

Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot? ... For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? ... At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal. — G.K. Chesterton

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover. — Sandra Bullock

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper. — Simone Elkeles

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. — Luc De Clapiers

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt. — Karen Miller

Know the world from end to end is a mirror;
in each atom a hundred suns are concealed.
If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water,
from it will flow a hundred clear oceans;
if you look intently at each speck of dust,
in it you will see a thousand beings.
A gnat in its limbs is like an elephant;
in name a drop of water resembles the Nile.
In the heart of a barleycorn is stored a hundred harvests.
Within a millet-seed a world exists.
In an insects wing is an ocean of life.
A heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye.
The core at the center of the heart is small,
yet the Lord of both worlds will enter there. — Mahmud Shabistari

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. — Mother Teresa

It's not only how much money you make. It's what you do with it that determines your financial condition. — Sandra S. Simmons

No matter how difficult your life has been, you can be certain that your soul is still in perfect condition, waiting for you to set it free. — Ilchi Lee

He would do worse than his worst if he had to. — Isaac Asimov

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. — John Dewey

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it. — James Laughlin

With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer. — Marissa Mayer

I'm neither a magician, nor a wizard," Mab's deep voice sounded behind him. John was startled.
"But you are. I mean you must be. You can do magic."
"Not magic, Sword Bearer. /Miracles/."
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"But you do magic!" John said, bewildered.
"No, Sword Bearer. It is true that I have power from the Changer, but the power I have is His power, not ours. It is to be used in his service. Magic is stolen power. The power that Qhahdrun has is magical power. It was stolen from the Mystery of Abomination when he rebelled against the Changer. Qhahdrun really thinks it belongs to him, but one day it will be taken from him. For at the last all power will go back to the Changer from whence it came. — John White