Correcting Foolishness Quotes & Sayings

The beautiful dream of young love that ventures only on half-measures, that desires and dares not ask, promises and does not give.

He was homeless in the noble sense of those who, like the Vikings and pirates of beauty, have collected in their intellectual raids all that is most precious in many great cities. He was close to all the arts in the manner of a dilettante, but stronger than his love for them was his sublime disdain to serve them.

Destiny does not always need the powerful prelude of a sudden violent blow to shake a heart beyond recovery.

Memory is always a bond and every loving memory is a bond twice over. — Stefan Zweig

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success. — Warren G. Bennis

Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed. — Randolph Bourne

As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades. — Wendy Kopp

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty. — Joseph Fouche

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character. — Gary Chapman

There is more to it than just, you prosper, your enemies fail, said Mama Zouzou. — Neil Gaiman

That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me
actually more exciting
than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven. — Sherwin B. Nuland

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. — Adyashanti

George used to say that Granny wasn't a time-optimist, she was a time-atheist, and the only religion she believed in was Do-It-Later-Buddhism. — Fredrik Backman