2cv Research Quotes & Sayings

Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured. — Nicholas Lemann

I stared at him over the rim of my mug and didn't say anything.
Gideon shoved his shirttails into his slacks with obvious frustration. "Fine."
"Thank you."
"You could refrain from grinning like the Cheshire cat," he muttered. — Sylvia Day

Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi. — Arvind Kejriwal

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. — Jose Saramago

Everyone knew what the night would bring lots of D and A plenty of T and A — Saira Viola

Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby. — Stephen M. Irwin

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland. — Theodore Parker

Never use pages for personal brand! — Robert Scoble

A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors. — Nina Jacobson

I knew he was watching me, possibly hoping that I would look back, but I didn't. I just raised my hand in good faith, believing he would see me waving as I disappeared behind the doors. That guy fucked like a champion. — Truth Devour

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free. — Heraclitus

She wanted - what some people want throughout life - a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty clear what's there. If you have a machine with 10,000 parts and you shake them up in a box, what you have is a box of junk. — Gene Wolfe