Blijven Gaan Quotes & Sayings

...literacy is as vital as food, security, limiting population growth, and control of the environment.

Education, after all, is the one issue that affects every other one. I think of it in the same way as dropping a pebble into a pond and getting a ripple effect. Educated people make more money and are more likely to escape poverty. Educated parents raise healthier children.

...The list goes on, just as ripples in a body of water emanate outward. — John Wood

Few people ever have an abundance of choice of occupation. But what matters is that we have some choice, that we are not absolutely tied to a job which has been chosen for us, and that if one position becomes intolerable, or if we set our heart on another, there is always a way for the able, at some sacrifice, to achieve his goal. Nothing makes conditions more unbearable than the knowledge that no effort of ours can change them; and even if we should never have the strength of mind to make the necessary sacrifice, the knowledge that we could escape if we only strove hard enough makes many otherwise intolerable positions bearable. — Friedrich Hayek

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything. — James Salter

Now and always, we expect to insist upon it that we are Americans, that America is our native land; that this is our home; that we are American citizens . . . and that it is the duty of the American people so to recognize us. - FREDERICK DOUGLASS A — Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny. — Bill Johnson

We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating. — Fran Lebowitz

To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one. — Amitav Ghosh

How are we proud to call ourselves the United States, if we ourselves aren't united. — Anthony Heetland

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life. — Henry Ford

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes. — Suzanne Collins

I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth. — Darren Star

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn't. — Aaron Copland

INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human
beings. INNATE cannot be cheated, violated, or tricked. INNATE is always
waiting, ready to communicate with you, and when INNATE is in contact
you are in tune with the Infinite. — B. J. Palmer