Aamas Conference Quotes & Sayings

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. — Adam Smith

All the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them ... — Muhammad Asad

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. — Anthony Trollope

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning. — Richard M. Nixon

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom. — Martha Beck

Never ever tickle anyone, who happens to be ticklish and holding a knife.
Foolish accidents not only, may occure,
but will occure and you'll regret it
for the rest of your life. — R.K. Cowles

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history. — Oliver

I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them. — Stephane Hessel

I just bought a Chihuahua. It's the dog for lazy people. You don't have to walk it. Just hold it out the window and squeeze. — Anthony Ward Clark

A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the
art of persuading. — Blaise Pascal

The cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans. — Ann Brashares

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. — Wassily Kandinsky

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher. — E.L. Konigsburg