Cititor Carduri Quotes & Sayings

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience. — William James

Are we...does that mean...are we cousins? — Richelle Mead

One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them. — Booker T. Washington

For some people the remark, "You're just like your mother [or father]," is enough to pick a fight. For a Christian, the greatest testimony of God's grace in our lives is the observation, "You're just like your Father. — Gloria Furman

It is enough for a Psychohistorian, as such, to know his Biostatistics and his Neurochemical Electromathematics. Some know nothing else and are fit only to be statistical technicians. But a Speaker must be able to discuss the Plan without mathematics. — Isaac Asimov

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history. — David Mamet

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Everyone has always called me by my last name. Once people get to know me, they don't call me Sara anymore. — Sara Canning

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner. — Halle Berry

Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don't have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost everyday. — Banksy

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice. — Isaac Barrow

24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day. — Stephen Hopkins

You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself. — Zack Snyder

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief. — Laini Taylor