Quotes & Sayings About Attracting Positivity

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. — Juan Cole

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work. — Karen Morley

The cream of a generation was lost in the mud of Flanders. Etonians went over the top with the Illiad in their knapsacks and Athens in their hearts. To protest that such men were statistically not even a trace among the British soldiers killed is to miss the point. At all times the great majority of people have been ignorant of the classics; but the men who mattered; who governed, declared wars and resisted innovation have always had Latin and Greek. — William Donaldson

It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment ... — Louisa May Alcott

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public. — Yuri Milner

Their cynicism was complete and terrible: details, like the lying signs outside the underground chambers of the crematoriums that announced in seven languages, "BATHS," whereas in reality they were gas chambers; the boxes of cyclon gas,5 which were labeled, "POISON: FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF PARASITES," the parasites being, of course, the untold thousands of innocent Jews murdered in the space of a few minutes. Who knows just how far the lie went? — Miklos Nyiszli

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. — Franz Grillparzer

He's from a generation that never even expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare climb higher. That's the problem with midway. Up is everything and down just means all the white people want to party on your street on Sunday night to feel realness. Midway is nowhere. — Marlon James

The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality. — Antiphon

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet. — Ama Ata Aidoo