Carrionites Quotes & Sayings

The past always fails those who grasp at it. — Patrick Ness

And I understood why he came and why I couldn't go, not just then at least, because one never knows if what one sees will disappear forever. — Kevin Powers

Pleasure has turned into passion much more quickly than I should ever have thought possible. — Theophile Gautier

It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied. — Lauryn Williams

Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can't always count on having Albert Einstein in the patent office, so you design its procedures to work even if you hire Mr. Bean by mistake. — Charles Stross

The journey is the reward — Steve Jobs

Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied. — Frederick Lenz

Whether or not these ideas alone would solve any of the problems discussed, I look forward to the day when SLA is more widely recognized as the serious and socially responsive discipline I believe it can be. Chapters like this one (unpleasant for writer and assuredly some readers alike) would no longer be needed. One could instead concentrate on the genuine controversies and excitement in SLA and L3A: the roles of nature and nurture; special and general nativism; child-adult differences and the possibility of maturational constraints; cross-linguistic influence; acquisition and socialization; cognitive and social factors; resilience; stabilization; fossilization, and other putative mechanisms and processes in interlanguage change; the feasibility of pedagogical intervention; and, most of all, the development of viable theories. — Michael H. Long