Angelines Endicott Quotes & Sayings

The trouble is that many people regard disagreement as unrelated to either teaching or being taught. They think that everything is just a matter of opinion. I have mine, and you have yours; and our right to our opinions is as inviolable as our right to private property. On such a view, communication cannot be profitable if the profit to be gained is an increase in knowledge. Conversation is hardly better than a ping-pong game of opposed opinions, a game in which no one keeps score, no one wins, and everyone is satisfied because he does not lose - that is, he ends up holding the same opinions he started with. — Mortimer J. Adler

The system will always be here. The system doesn't change. — Larry Kramer

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well. — Sepp Blatter

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core
the fountain
of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury") — Audre Lorde

The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack. — Anthony Doerr

The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life. — Ian McEwan

That was the trouble with hiding things. Sometimes, if you were in a hurry, you left them behind. Even important things. — Neil Gaiman