Ahmed Bukhatir Quotes & Sayings

The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. It would be the same thing with any other language when it becomes dead. The best Greek linguist that now exists does not understand Greek so well as a Grecian plowman did, or a Grecian milkmaid; and the same for the Latin, compared with a plowman or a milkmaid of the Romans; and with respect to pronunciation and idiom, not so well as the cows that she milked. It would therefore be advantageous to the state of learning to abolish the study of the dead languages, and to make learning consist, as it originally did, in scientific knowledge. — Thomas Paine

June smiled. So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility? — Rick Riordan

Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you treat people nicely, and you allow them to fulfill a role that is satisfying for them, they'll accomplish a lot, and they'll enjoy their work. — Fred DeLuca

competitively, they naturally assume that it's something I do all the time or that my diet is terrible all the time. I can always tell when they are because I see them give a quick glance at my body, looking for the lingering effects of eating 200 chicken wings in a sitting. It's an easy assumption to make, I suppose, — Furious Pete

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. — Akhenaton

Yes, I know. It's a VERY prestigious school, known for its outstanding students, rigorous academics, chic uniforms, and beautiful campus that's a twist between Hogwarts and a five-star luxury hotel! Most — Rachel Renee Russell