Dadant Quotes & Sayings

It's been a struggling school for many, many years, and [that's] not surprising since it's serving some of the most disadvantaged kids in the city. It wasn't the only one by any means, but it was among those. It shows that things like good, steady, stable leadership makes a huge difference; focusing on the culture of the schools as a place where kids feel supported and want to be; supporting the teachers, so they want to stay and work hard. — Pedro Noguera

Outiko is not hunted; Outiko hunts, the ogimaa had said. You do not call Outiko. Outiko calls you. — Rick Yancey

Two Dutch researchers did a study in which they had groups of students answer forty-two fairly demanding questions from the board game Trivial Pursuit. Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Those students got 55.6 percent of the questions right. The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. They ended up getting 42.6 percent of the Trivial Pursuit questions right. The "professor" group didn't know more than the "soccer hooligan" group. They weren't smarter or more focused or more serious. They were simply in a "smart" frame of mind, and, clearly, associating themselves with the idea of something smart, like a professor, made it a lot easier - in that stressful instant after a trivia question was asked - to blurt out the right answer. — Malcolm Gladwell

They are all my favourites. All of them. — Stephen Chbosky

Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became love ... It is this love that we are planted by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus. — Adolph Saphir

I shield my eyes from the sun to see her cold look - the expression I saw in my mind even before I looked at her. She looks older to me than she ever has, stern and tough and worn by time. I feel that way, too.
"These people have no regard for human life," she says. "They're about to wipe the memories of all our friends and neighbors. They're responsible for the deaths of a large majority of our old faction." She sidesteps me and marches toward the door. "I think they're lucky I'm not going to kill them. — Veronica Roth

cause sitting around moping over a nigga ain't never got a bitch nowhere. — N. Carmouche

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures. — Pliny The Elder

To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished. — Sun Tzu

We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it. — Gackt

Proud Prelate, you know what you were before I made you what you are. If you do not immediately comply with my request I will unfrock you by God! — Elizabeth I