Abrial Levin Quotes & Sayings

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me. — Sanford I. Weill

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do. — Matthew Quick

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade. — Lisa Kristine

They are for 'freedom' when it is freedom to kill third-term fetuses or engage in same-sex marriages or stuff coke up their noses; they do not define freedom as anything to do with captive peoples around the world having the chance to escape the tyrannies that constrain them. They like Fidel because he is a thorn in America's side and a sort of dime-store existentialist, and they rhapsodize about his spreading of literacy in Cuba without considering the fact that at the same time that he teaches people to read he tortures writers like Armando Valladares whose books he doesn't like. — David Horowitz

She had never heard the word 'intellectual' used as a noun before she went to Barnard, and she took it to heart. It was a brave noun, a proud noun, a noun suggesting lifelong dedication to lofty things and a cool disdain for the commonplace. An intellectual might lose her virginity to a soldier in the park, but she could learn to look back on it with wry, amused detachment. An intellectual might have a mother who showed her underpants when drunk, but she wouldn't let it bother her. And Emily Grimes might not be an intellectual yet, but if she took copious notes in even the dullest of her classes, and if she read every night until her eyes ached, it was only a question of time. — Richard Yates

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The most wonderful thing about being well-traveled in life experiences and adventures, is the humility / humanity AND wisdom it gives us who venture._nickc — Travel

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches. — Confucius

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves. — Jim George

doubt he understands you and Fin are hot for — Nora Roberts

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more
it's sad, but that's the truth. — Banana Yoshimoto

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause. — Abraham Lincoln

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. — Amanda Seyfried

The case of Afghanistan vs. the Soviet Union is the clearest case of good against evil that I've seen in my lifetime. I thought it was terrific the way they got their country back. — William T. Vollmann