Children Learning Different Rates Quotes & Sayings

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken. — Andre Malraux

Going over to their prisoner, Vishous performed a visual assessment on Xcor. When they'd brought the bastard in here, V had strapped him onto the wooden slab table face-up and spread-eagled, locking stainless-steel cuffs on those wrists and ankles and around that thick neck - and what do you know, the guy was right where he'd left him. Color was passable. Eyes were closed. Head wound at the rear of the skull was no longer leaking, having healed already. — J.R. Ward

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. — Dr. Seuss

This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past. — Scott Turow

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can't, and you hate yourself because you can't, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God's help you can command your will when you can't command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn't appear to agree with us. — Elizabeth Goudge

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. — Daniel H. Hill

I hope I won't be eternally damned for that, but then again I've warranted damnation for so much else that one atrocity, more or less, would do little against the weight of my soul in the afterlife. — Terry Mancour

'Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again. — Rutger Hauer

It's a number."
"It's not," she said. "It's a chance to wake up new. — Rainbow Rowell

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin

It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth - penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images, — Joseph Campbell

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. — Hermann Hesse

A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of storytelling, wearing us out with repetition, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines. It insists on showing us Bardak Electronics, the saftey handle in the car, a stray dog, a Christmas card and a fly that lands first on the rim and then in the centre of the ashtray.
Which explains how the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting wooliness of the present. — Alain De Botton

I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun. — Wooden Wand