A Boy Nick Hornby Marcus Quotes & Sayings

Some kind of deliberate planning is necessary. But which kind and how much? We cannot answer these questions, cannot pass judgment on any given scheme, except by constantly referring back to our ideal postulates. In considering any plan we must ask whether it will help to transform the society to which it is applied into a just, peaceable, morally and intellectually progressive community of non-attached and responsible men and women. If so, we can say that the plan is a good one. If not, we must pronounce it to be bad. — Aldous Huxley

The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint. — Bell Hooks

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. — Lucian Freud

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday. — Hugh Prather

February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure. — Gladys Hasty Carroll

It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy. — Jack Nicholson

Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice. — Stephen R. Covey

Cooling bodies gravitate and heat as they gravitate-heating bodies radiate, and cool as they radiate. — Walter Russell

The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger. — Luis Marques

Sometimes it takes a scar to expose the beauty. I prefer a world full of contrast. It's much more interesting. — Katie Delahanty

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. — William Allen White

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life. — Thomas Cole

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is. — Howard Dean