Being Pawned Quotes & Sayings

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it. — Gilbert Highet

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely. — Ted Nelson

This was the danger of sharing your dreams with your parents. If you told them you wanted to learn to play the guitar, all they heard you say was, "I want to learn to play the guitar," and then they found some practical, convenient, cheap way, often involving a church basement, for you to do it. But Hector had not come up with any plan of his own. And owning a guitar seemed like an important stepping stone on the way to being a guitar player. So he pawned his soul and said he would take the lessons from the Presbyterian youth minister. What the hell, he thought. Or heck, he thought. What the heck. — Lynne Rae Perkins

Family being the most important thing in the world. The most important. Why, it's your family that tells you who you are. Without a family, you're a nobody. — Lauren Groff

What was the point of loving when the people you loved were taken from you? When Death and Time were always looming and poised to strike, why did love exist? — Alexandra Monir

Emotions are not 'bad.' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed ... the energies of enlightenment arises from the very same natural origins as those which give rise to our everyday passions and emotions. — James H. Austin