Elemenatary Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently. — Studs Terkel

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. — Bernard De Mandeville

God Almighty, I love life. Even this vile place, where the trees are shattered stubs and where nothing grows but craters, even the sights, scents, sounds, and stirrings of this place are preferable to the unchanging nothingness of the Great Darkness. — Dan Simmons

These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take. — Nicola Sturgeon

Her nerves licked her palms. — Markus Zusak

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. — Annie Dillard

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. — W. E. B. Griffin

His hate wasn't professional; it was an obsession, a fixation, as if unrequited love had grown awful, twisted into something ugly. — Tom Rob Smith

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good — Swami Vivekananda

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God. — B. R. Hayden

I was always interested in how to be more joyful. This goes all the way back to elemenatary school. I looked at what was going on around me and I wanted something better. Because my mother had so many ups and downs, I watned to know how to be "up" more often. — Bonnie St. John

I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old. — Katherine McNamara

I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families
our ancestors
are our identities. Biology is destiny.
I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either. — Aimee Friedman

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall