Change Agents Hawaii Quotes & Sayings

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want.
No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all. — Cormac McCarthy

Whenever you linger in the past, you invite loneliness in. — Elise Icten

Women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload. — Clara Zetkin

I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well I am one scientist, and there are many that simply think that is not true. — John Christy

Don't tell everything you know. Don't believe everything you hear. — Unknown

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom. — Bidzina Ivanishvili

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship. — Wallace Stegner

No, Newt, I don't understand," Minho said, the frustration in his voice escalating. "We risked our necks to come to this place and you're our friend and we're taking you home. You wanna whine and cry while you go crazy, that's fine. But you're gonna do it with us, not with these shuck Cranks. — James Dashner

You aren't a demon practitioner?" "No, but they seem to practice me." Trent and Rachel — Kim Harrison

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store. — PJ Harvey

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love. — Maria Edgeworth

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist. — Meghan O'Rourke

With me, everything turns into mathematics. — Rene Descartes