Academics Versus Values Quotes & Sayings

You are exactly like Jesus when you are wearing his armor. — Joseph Prince

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. — Zoe Wanamaker

Lesson: If you're going to view blinds as taxes, be a Republican about them. — Colson Whitehead

Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted ... But I recognize the fact that we have this ridiculous system of tenure, that the whole thrust of academia is one that values education, in my opinion, in inverse ratio to its usefulness - and what you write in inverse relationship to its understandability. [ ... ] Academics are forced to write in language no one can understand so that they get tenure. They have to say 'discourse', not 'talk'. Knowledge that is not accessible is not helpful. — Gloria Steinem

grimaced and opened his freezer, thankful — S.S. Lange

I love you and I will stand on your side even if the whole world is against you. — M.F. Moonzajer

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game. — Fernando Torres

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. — John Bunyan

Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time. — Frederick Lenz

I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again. — Lefty Gomez

I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it. — Amanda Eliasch

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself...
It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith--
Because now your self is all you will ever have. — Matthew Woodring Stover

In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling. — Leo Tolstoy

If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and academics in the U.S. for the most part don't make these arguments; instead they have retreated from defending the university as a citadel of public values and in doing so have abdicated any sense of social responsibility to the idea of the university as a site of inspired by the search for truth, justice, freedom, and dignity. — Henry Giroux