Dobby Gives Harry Potter Quotes & Sayings

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America." This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation. — Edward Said

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me — Martin Buber

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time. — Drew Carey

She'd take these random occurrences and elevate them to oracles; she'd pretend that they were enough to justify her actions.
Or lack therof. — Jodi Picoult

I don't know anything about wars. I don't think even the most erudite scholars do. I think you have to fight one, to know it. — Rick Bragg

We're never the same person twice. — Jennifer-Crystal Johnson

The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is that they don't go far enough; they don't have a coherent view of life. Spinning around in the media from moment to moment, they don't stand for anything, push for anything; they're mere opportunists without dedication, and they don't win any victories. — David Denby

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. — Joel Salatin

Said he would not turn into me. Wouldn't become a thing destined to be alone. — Kristen Callihan

... The moral philosophy and spiritual conceptions of men and nations should hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions ... No material progress, even though it takes shapes we cannot now conceive, or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his soul. — Winston S. Churchill