Calinog Elementary Quotes & Sayings

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. — Bradley Miller

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture. — Sophie Marceau

A man who would betray his friends is the lowest form of human being. — K'wan

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity. — Amos Tversky

Martha was a clever girl, and therefore not a believer. — Julian Barnes

In spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now
I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing. — Jean Webster

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. — Mao Zedong

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any. — Igor Stravinsky

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing. — Laozi

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence. — Eric Alterman

This heated (environmental) debate is fundamentally about numbers. How much energy could each source deliver, at what economic and social cost, and with what risks? But actual numbers are rarely mentioned. In public debates, people just say "Nuclear is a money pit" or "We have a huge amount of wave and wind." The trouble with this sort of language is that it's not sufficient to know that something is huge: we need to know how the one "huge" compares with another "huge," namely our huge energy consumption. To make this comparison, we need numbers, not adjectives. — David Mackay

As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Then, in 1632, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) published his Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems), wherein he established the superiority of the Copernican model. For this, as well as for the disrespectful tone of the book toward Pope Urban VIII (1568-1644), Galileo was tried and convicted of heresy, forced to recant his championing of the heliocentric model, and spent the remainder of his life under house arrest. Nevertheless, — Stephen Penner

I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap. — Fay Weldon

If I had to do it all over again, I'd rather endure the pain in the beginning than have had it easy and then have it all go to shit later on. — Jamie McGuire