Conjures Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere. — Wendy Kopp

Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked. — Joseph Sobran

This land used to yield. Rains used not to fail. What happened?' inquired Ruoro. It was Muturi who answered. 'You forget that in those days the land was not for buying. It was for use. It was also plenty, you need not have beaten one yard over and over again. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

That's when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people's lives. — Robin Benway

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway. — Keri Russell

Science and violence turned silence to rage. — Emily Saliers

We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing - and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness. — Thomas Watson

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft. — Mark Romanek

I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean any_thing to some people, and I just don't get that! After all, if you just read the Bible plainly, it tells you everything. From Creation, to the Flood, to Jesus. I can't see how you can come to the conclusion, there is no God. — Betty Cuthbert

But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for ... or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place. — J.R. Ward

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. — Steven Weinberg

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