Amantium Quotes & Sayings

Education is not received. It is achieved. — Albert Einstein

Is he your only child? I asked, "my only son" padma said. "My condolences" I said ... Anita Blake — Laurell K. Hamilton

Nationalism can only ever be a crucial political agenda against oppression. All longing to the contrary, it cannot provide the absolute guarantee of identity. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Well, yeah. Aren't you? I want to destroy anyone who has hurt you for a dumb reason like just being yourself. What? Do we want the entire universe made up of people who are all clones of each other? How damn boring would that be? You know the expression that love makes the world go 'round? That might be true, but love comes from the way differences interact. How personalities interact. How we bounce off of each other, challenge each other, and how we push and pull. It's through those tensions that we connect with others and with ourselves. And it's how we fall in love. Because there is magic in diversity. Without the Celestes, the world wouldn't go 'round. Do you see that? — Jessica Park

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.' — Sam Taylor-Wood

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies. — Anais Nin

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that. — Bill Kurtis

We want you to write it down
to camouflage it. Only for the present, of course. Once the thing gets going we shan't have to bother about the great heart of the British public. We'll make the great heart what we want it to be. But in the meantime, it does make a difference how things are put. For instance, if it were even whispered that the N.I.C.E. wanted powers to experiment on criminals, you'd have all the old women of both sexes up in arms and yapping about humanity. Call it re-education of the mal-adjusted, and you have them all slobbering with delight that the brutal era of retributive punishment has at last come to and end. Odd thing it is
the word 'experiment' is unpopular, but not the word 'experimental.' You must'nt experiment on children; but offer the dear little kiddies free education in an experimental school attached to the N.I.C.E. and it's all correct! — C.S. Lewis

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing. — Rich Mullins

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation. — Rick Riordan

Amantium irae amoris integratio est
A Latin saying that means
Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love — Janet Aylmer

ABOUT JOE. Wednesday morning. He'd been dead — Lee Child

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here ... in the Southwest ... I still live in New Mexico. — Rudolfo Anaya

I believe the words parents speak to their children are of vital significance. They become either blessings or curses, depending on their content and connotations. They accompany you through your lifetime, caressing or pinching, building you up or tearing you down. — Adi Tsin Ben-Nun