Anoints My Head Quotes & Sayings

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. — Elie Wiesel

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible. — Geoffrey Canada

It is unrealistic, I think - and by "unrealistic" I mean it is a demand that cannot be met - to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Not because life is the kind of thing that doesn't make you happy; but because happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children, I think, suffer - in a way that adults don't always realize - under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy, which is the pressure not to make their parents unhappy, or more unhappy than they already are. — Jennifer Senior

Don't be sad and don't give up on your dreams. Dreams will come true one day. There's no person as beautiful as a person who dreams — Kim Him-chan

We have given sorrow many words, but a passion for life few. — Kay Redfield Jamison

I would let you take me through a million nightmares if it meant that I could have one dream with you. — B. Mauritz

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it - and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die - I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there. — E. M. Forster

Now this really annoys me: All these people getting on the Internet and saying Nostradamus predicted this. If Nostradamus were alive today his name would be Miss Cleo and he'd be charging $2.99 a minute. — Jay Leno

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string. — Chinua Achebe

Nice try, mister, but being cute won't save you. — C.J. Milbrandt