Aitkenhead Primary Quotes & Sayings

Anyone can love a loving person but
give your love to someone who doesn't deserve it — Debasish Mridha

This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last! — Georg Cantor

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away. — Deb Caletti

I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are things that people can learn from somebody who leads a state like Ohio which is, frankly, a microcosm of the country. — John Kasich

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed. — Tony Abbott

For over twenty-five centuries we've been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we could call our own.

This violence of landscape, this cruelty of climate, this continual tension in everything, and even these monuments of the past, magnificent yet incomprehensible because not built by us and yet standing round us like lovely mute ghosts; all those rulers who landed by main force from every direction who were at once obeyed, soon detested, and always misunderstood, their only expressions works of art we couldn't understand and taxes which we understood only too well and which they spent elsewhere: all these things have formed our character, which is thus conditioned by events outside our control as well as by a terrifying insularity of mind. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. — Jalaluddin Rumi

He smiled, so sensual and beautiful, it was another form of bliss just looking at him. — Jeaniene Frost

Granddad is on his mat, meditating. He says, "You have to live in the present, Lucky." "But it's impossible to forget." "I didn't say you had to forget it. Never forget it. But stop living there. Live here, in the present. Think forward to your future." "My future is three more years of Nader McMillan." "Yes, but from now on you're the one in control. — A.S. King

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life. — Parker J. Palmer

May your troubles be less
Your blessings be more.
And nothing but happiness
Come through your door. — Dorien Kelly

We have been raised to a height that is unattainable and unimaginable for a natural man. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it. — Paulo Coelho