Curridge Primary Quotes & Sayings

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement. — Henry David Thoreau

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum. — Romola Garai

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful. — Mallory Ortberg

Amazing to think that everything we do has a ripple effect we're not aware of. — Red Phoenix

Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently. — Brian Stableford

Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both. — Gloria Steinem

We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it. — Macklemore

Eugenie, my sweet, your outraged protests are adorable, but they only continue to slow us down. If you want me to help you, then let me. If you don't, then take me to one of those places where human women wear revealing clothing and quickly lose their virtue through alcohol. — Richelle Mead

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes. — William Bolitho

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you. — T.D. Jakes

poor Byron, whose car had been run over by an autopiloted eighteen-wheeler on Valentine's Day, about — William Gibson