Avale Quotes & Sayings

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. — Richard Yates

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time - we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will. — Robert A. Heinlein

Pick up any book about personal finance and you're likely to read a 200-page mind-fuck about being cheap. Of course, these books don't overtly say, "Be cheap," but hide behind slippery phrases like "the simple life" or "frugal living." Some — MJ DeMarco

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave. — Susanna Kearsley

People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy. — Charmian Hussey

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. — Zoe Lister-Jones

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. — Edward Norton

I was like a turd inside someone who'd accidentally swallowed an engagement ring: I was nothing, yet I carried something uniquely special. — Alissa Nutting

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict. — Frank B. Kellogg

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. — William Cowper

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz. — Pat Metheny

I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food. — Graham Elliot

P24- the power of school loss to divide social reality has no boundaries education becomes unworldly and the world becomes noneducational — Ivan Illich