Churchwell Lofts Quotes & Sayings

Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind. — Francis Wayland Parker

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host. — Mira Grant

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy. — Gerald R. Ford

I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the Government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success and I will risk the dictatorship. — Dale Carnegie

These days I am in a super-acute, a hyped-up life. It never goes to sleep.

And yet all the events of this hyped-up life seem to be cut from the hyperdream. All of them turn up accompanied by a voice that murmurs to my heart "it's not going to last. — Helene Cixous

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot. — Daryl Morey

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter. — P. J. O'Rourke

When he was taken this last time, he was preaching on these words, viz.:Dost thou believe the Son of God? And this imprisonment continued six years, and when this was over, another short affliction, which was an imprisonment of half a year, fell to his share. During these confinements he wrote the following books, viz.: Of Prayer by the Spirit: The Holy City's Resurrection: Grace Abounding: Pilgrim's Progress, the first part. — John Bunyan

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition. — Christopher Paolini

I trust people, and I respect their areas of responsibility. — Harry West

Most people don't care who rules, as long as their lives don't change. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,
then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me. — Toba Beta

I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. — Kristen Wiig

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society. — Ken Livingstone