Cannondaleschoolhouse Quotes & Sayings

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean. — Aristotle.

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house. — Socrates

The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such. — George Washington

People surprise you sometimes. — Dennis Lehane

For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson — Rick Riordan

What if all the myths and fairy tales were pointing to something that was not only true but also truer than anything we knew in this world, to a realm that was truer and more real? — Eric Metaxas

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. — Taner Edis

We like to think we're in charge of our own lives, but we ain't. — Moira Young

The conversation progressed, bumper-car style, to a very heated discussion about death and the survival of the soul. It amazes me that we, as a species, can argue so fervently over something that is, when all is said and done, unknowable and unprovable. Nonetheless, we all arrive at conclusions and cleave to our certainties: that there is nothing but the Void; or that we will find ourselves writing an admissions exam at the Pearly Gates. — Bill Richardson

If you continue to act now and be a member of the WWE Universe, you will see the same footage from ... another ... camera angle. — John Cena

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor. — Heather Graham

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried. — Rupert Everett

In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes. — David Wenham

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks. — Spike Lee