Alamein New City Quotes & Sayings

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education. — Mahatma Gandhi

The idea of popular art, like that of a patriotic art, if not actually dangerous seemed to me ridiculous. If the intention was to make art accessible to the people by sacrificing refinements of form, on the ground that they are "all right for the idle rich" but not for anybody else, I had seen enough of fashionable society to know that it is there that one finds real illiteracy and not, let us say, among electricians. — Marcel Proust

abuse of drugs was not "a mysterious and inexplicable natural catastrophe, but a form — David T. Courtwright

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph. — Swami Vivekananda

Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world. — Jonathan Sacks

Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. — Thomas S. Monson

Buddy ran down the road, turned into another street, and vanished as if he had never been there, like another ghost from New Orleans's past. — Hunter Murphy

The most recent phase of the alternation between Occidentalism and primitivism has therefore concealed the essential thing, the universality of violence. A selective blindness in one of two forms has obscured the fact that all cultures, and all individuals without exception, participate in violence; that violence is what structures our collective sense of belonging and our personal identities. — Rene Girard

In your flaws are hidden your strength. Your perfect imperfection will lead you to change. — Tonto Dikeh

You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland? — Greg Giraldo

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth,
then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today. — Toba Beta

A person didn't fall in love. They dissolved into it. One day you were ice, the next day, a puddle. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken. — Thomas Hardy