Educadora Quotes & Sayings

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under. — C.S. Lewis

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer with no teeth, it's easy to say: 'Damn it, boys, you mustn't bite!' But, when you've got all thirty-two teeth ... — Nikos Kazantzakis

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived. — Will Durant

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor. — Inga Muscio

I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. I will give my body to my love and celebrate that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves. We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point. This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day. — Mary Anne Radmacher

When all you know is how to use a hammer, you think hitting should solve every problem. — Nana Awere Damoah

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. — Chuck Palahniuk

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights. — Ralph Fiennes

Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'Cool, that's something I want to do.' — Lisa Leslie

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you. — Scarlett Johansson

In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world. — Sakyong Mipham

His words hung around, too, leaving their brain stain on the air. — Karen Russell