Aaryn Big Quotes & Sayings

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down. — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

The problem of environmental children's health is very urgent in Russia. Environmental situation now is the main factor, which determines young generation's health ... the volume of pollutant emissions in atmosphere and water grew and scale of ecological man-caused catastrophes increased. More than half of Russian territories, where 60-70 percent of the of population lives, have unsafe ecological situation. — Maria Cherkasova

I am like a survivor
of the flood
walking through the streets
drenched with
God
surprised that all of the
drowned victims
are still walking and talking — Saul Williams

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common. — Angel Olsen

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'
and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight. — C.S. Lewis

I don't want to say this," he says, "but I feel like I have to. It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand?"
His straight eyebrows are drawn low over his eyes. My stomach writhes, partly because I know he makes a good point but I don't want to admit it, and partly because I want something I don't know how to express; I want to press against the space between us until it disappears.
I nod.
"But please, when you see an opportunity ... " He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They look almost predatory. "Ruin them. — Veronica Roth

I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life. — Colleen Hoover

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change. — Francois Hollande

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella, — Ai Weiwei

I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you're going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun. — Phillip Phillips

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers. — Henry Paulson

And I still don't understand the purpose of a wedding. What could possibly induce two free beings to partner only with each other for the rest of their existence? — Helene Wecker

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. — Baruch Spinoza

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. — Havelock Ellis