Fellowy Quotes & Sayings

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. — S.I. Hayakawa

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. — William James

If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country. — Valerie June

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make. — Joel Osteen

Shudupshudup ... will ye all shudup while I'm talkin' ... Ahem. Good day ta' ye, carter fellow my ol' fellowy fellow! If ye'll gie us - me a lift as far as yer are goin', we - I'll gie ye this fine shiny golden coin! The — Terry Pratchett

What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of — Steve Harvey

Truth between candid minds can never do harm. — Thomas Jefferson

Once upon a time, we were Africans involved in a unique lexicon of beliefs, lore, stories, and customs that were designed to help integrate us into an environment filled with plants, animals, elements, and a complex array of spirits. With the advent of slavery, the physical bond with the motherland was broken, but like seeds lifted from a ripe plant by wind, we found fertile ground in distant lands elsewhere. — Stephanie Rose Bird

Acceptance doesn't mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life's terms improves. — Sharon E. Rainey

I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love - it's a Coca-Cola cake. — Kimberly Schlapman

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea. — John Osborne

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses. — Mahatma Gandhi

The key may be to keep the bright light of public attention shining. According to a study by the American Psychological Association, the reported numbers of assaults increase an average of about 44 percent when campuses are under formal scrutiny. Afterward, though, they sink back to their original levels, indicating that some schools provide a more accurate picture of sexual assault only when forced to do so. — Peggy Orenstein

And now that I am older, I don't give a damn about sin. I will be the first to cast one. — Trista Mateer

And flowering all the year round, especially at Christmas - make your picture complete,' said he. 'No, — Elizabeth Gaskell

It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required. — Ramana Maharshi