Cronon Liberal Education Quotes & Sayings

In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary. — Emma Donoghue

That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own. That it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards. — Brother Lawrence

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros. — Mark Sanchez

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning. — Honore De Balzac

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under. — Karen White

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted. — Ada Yonath

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you. — Terry Pratchett

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy. — Kollontai Alexandra

The leading cause of death is birth. — Lewis H. Lapham

No bird ever looked at a plane in envy — Iain Thomas

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

No matter what it takes. Make at least part of him live, and I can find the rest of him somehow. Someday. — Alyssa Day

The vitality of literary character has less to do with dramatic action, novelistic coherence, and even plain plausibility - let alone likeability - than with a larger philosophical or metaphysical sense, our awareness that a character's actions are deeply important, that something profound is at stake, with the author brooding over the face of that character like God over the face of the waters. — James Wood

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being. — Hugh Grant

Romance is the sweetening of the soul
With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. — Wole Soyinka