Chariot Requiem Quotes & Sayings

Grades become a reward for compliance - but don't have much to do with learning. Meanwhile, students whose grades don't measure up often see themselves as failures and give up trying to learn. — Daniel H. Pink

There is a place where there is freedom of fear and doubt, and that is within. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Good writers look it up.
Great writers experience it. — Ebony Easter

True love, the good, beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it manages to overlook some pieces of its story. It overlooks what he can't give you or how she failed you or what mistakes he made when he was struggling. It stays steady at its center. It evolves, through drought and storm. It grows. It survives. — Deb Caletti

The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent). — Immanuel Wallerstein

When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom. — Lesslie Newbigin

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi. — Larry Brown

It is by no means your past that determines or dictates your present or your future; it is what you think and what you say, which then results in what you feel and what you do. — Miya Yamanouchi

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned. — Harvey MacKay

Men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth - no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children. — Becca Fitzpatrick

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties ... The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much, soon to forget it ... — James Madison

Sometimes funny is all you've got. — Amy Harmon