Bonpland Aime Quotes & Sayings

If you are not actively seeking the truth, you are destined to only know what people tell you, and people will only tell you what they want you to know. — Jack Mierop

Don't complain. Change. — Brandon Sanderson

I am happy with what I've done. — Hanoi Hannah

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. — Truman Capote

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters. — Maria Edgeworth

Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment. — Robyn Davidson

Of course, I tried to surround myself with other people like me whose dream of writing was a constant burden.... — Gerard Olson

Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be. — John Seabrook

I think maybe traveling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it
you seem to. — Gayle Forman

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child. — Ted Kooser

I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic
it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor. — John Taylor Gatto

heard mother speak of him. Father? Ah, dear! — Wilkie Collins

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point. — Bernie Sanders