Cochrans Of Scotland Quotes & Sayings

She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light. — Michael Ondaatje

Digital educators Salman Khan and Shantanu Sinha contend the world is on the verge of another "printing press moment," which will break the elite's grip on the essentials of education, making available to millions of aspiring learners online knowledge and ideas once restricted to the lecture halls of Harvard or Stanford. — McKinsey & Company

In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance? — Cal Thomas

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here? — Jodi Picoult

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred. — A.S. Byatt

As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'. — Sarah Jessica Parker

If I'm doing a show on Sunday at 7 P.M., that wouldn't be the same show that I'd do at 11 P.M. on a Saturday - it's a different room at a different time of day with different sensibilities. That doesn't mean you have to compromise your art, but it is communication: you have to know how to talk to people. — Michael Che

Your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains. — Brian Jacques

We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and workings,we overcome it by the very knowing.The primary purpose of meditation is to become more consciousand familiar with our inner life.The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You came to this world with nothing, and you will leave this world with nothing. There is nothing to gain or lose. You can only touch everyone and everything with your love. — Debasish Mridha

The more you focus on connection the more free you are on one hand and the more free you can be because the child does feel authentically connected to their destiny. — Shefali Tsabary

Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions
or, at least, will be second to none
and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure. — Sophie Swetchine

Raining radiation on this ozone-deprived planet. The only thing she ever longed for was short-lived love. — Ellen Hopkins