Afinando Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11) — Mike Higton

The other dragonets were his own size (nearly), and they didn't cheat (well, most of the time). — Tui T. Sutherland

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate. — Dee Dee Myers

It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered. — Wilma Mankiller

If he was paralyzed, we'd have to put in ramps and have things altered for wheelchair access; you can get kitchens refitted; bathrooms altered ... I'd get him a really fast wheelchair. It'd be OK. If he couldn't talk, I'd get him a great computer. Anything can be dealt with, everything can be overcome. Just be alive. Just, please God, I beg you, please, please keep him alive for me. — Mindy Hammond

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan. — Edward McKendree Bounds

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves. — Ellen Langer

A library should be like a pair of open arms. — Roger Rosenblatt

Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain. — Kenneth C. Griffin

When life gives you lemons ... squirt them in someone's eyes — Me

And she was...what? A governess? A false governess whose life history began in 1816 when she'd stepped off the ferry, seasick and petrified, and placed her feet on the rocky soil of the Isle of Man.
Anne Wynter had been born that day, and Annelise Shawcross...
She had disappeared. Gone in a puff like the spray of the ocean all around her. — Julia Quinn

Perhaps there's something to be learnt from novels after all" - Mr Collins, Charlotte ~ Pride & Prejudice Continues. — Karen Aminadra

What loss is death if life is not to be lived? — R.A. Salvatore

Why were American kids consistently underestimated in math? In middle school, Kim and Tom had both decided that math was something you were either good at, or you weren't, and they weren't. Interestingly, that was not the kind of thing that most Americans said about reading. If you weren't good at reading, you could, most people assumed, get better through hard work and good teaching. But in the United States, math was, for some reason, considered more of an innate ability, like being double-jointed. — Amanda Ripley

I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are. — Connor Franta