Essntially Quotes & Sayings

Professional learning does not advance ... through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions — Douglass B. Reeves

The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer. — Sophia Bush

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots. — Craig Ferguson

Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish. — Sathya Sai Baba

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality. — Elizabeth Bowen

We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. — Otto Von Bismarck

I unknot his tie and offer him a cold sandwich. He raps my backside, paying attention to the bounce. I walk around him as though he were a Maypole, kissing as I go.
"I lost my cuff link, goddamnit" he says, and drops to the floor to look for it. I go down too on my knees, but I know he never had a cuff link in his life. Still I would do a lot for him.
"Got you off you feet that time," he says, laughing. "Oh yes, I did." And before I can even make myself half comfortable on that polka-dotted linoleum, he got onto me right where we were, and the truth is, we were so happy, we forgot the precautions. — Grace Paley

A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far. — B.C. Forbes

Happiness can never fail to be the right choice, and love can carry us through. — D. Love

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral. — Lajos Kossuth

I love you all; I love you more than life itself, but you're all fucking mad. — Ozzy Osbourne