Funny Phd Graduation Quotes & Sayings

The question I'm most commonly asked is "Why?" A more pertinent question might be, why is it that more people don't attempt to escape the limitations imposed upon them? If Tracks has a message at all, it is that one can be awake to the demand for obedience that seems natural simply because it is familiar. Wherever there is pressure to conform (one person's conformity is often in the interests of another person's power), there is a requirement to resist. Of course I did not mean that people should drop what they were doing and head for the wilder places, certainly not that they should copy what I did. I meant that one can choose adventure in the most ordinary of circumstances. Adventure of the mind, or to use an old-fashioned word, the spirit. — Robyn Davidson

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire. — David Wallace

She'd never known fear had a taste, but it did. — Ron Rash

The song goes, "Morning has broken," and I'm pretty sure my children broke it. Like everything else they break, if they did break it, they'll never admit it. — Jim Gaffigan

There are enough in the novelty business without us; and we have something better to do. We have to give an account unto our God of what we do and say, and if we have been murderers of souls, it will be no excuse that we flourished the dagger well, or that when we gave them poison we mixed the draught cleverly, and presented it with poetical phrases. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Life is sad. Here is someone. — Lorrie Moore

This is some kind of life, isn't it? Something good happening inside something bad. — Jean Ferris