Gcmemorylane Quotes & Sayings

I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck. — Corra May Harris

It may seem sometimes, that it is hard to find the right words to say to someone. It is even harder to remain silent, until the right words come. Then it's easy. — Art Hochberg

Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother. — Clinton Anderson

The more time I spent in Finland, the more I started to worry that the reforms sweeping across the United States had the equation backwards. We were trying to reverse engineer a high-performance teaching culture through dazzlingly complex performance evaluations and value-added data analysis. It made sense to reward, train, and dismiss more teachers based on their performance, but that approach assumed that the worst teachers would be replaced with much better ones, and that the mediocre teachers would improve enough to give students the kind of education they deserved. However, there was not much evidence that either scenario was happening in reality. — Amanda Ripley

strange sense of loss came over him. — Oscar Wilde

To the extent that we ignore (or run from) our own sinfulness, we will be unable to care for other sinners. We will be unable to extend forgiveness to others until we are honest about the extent to which we are forgiven. — Tullian Tchividjian

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows. — Bud Grant

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt. — Robert A. Heinlein

I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. I think it's so cool. — Anna Silk

In short, if the Muse exists, she does not whisper to the untalented. — Steven Pressfield

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool. — George Orwell