Gefion Gymnasium Quotes & Sayings

My mother always said that the best way to connect with anybody who was a mother was to find a way to compliment her child. — Julia Claiborne Johnson

Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms. — Margaret Atwood

Alexis de Tocqueville warned that as the economy and government of America got bigger, citizens could become smaller: less practiced in the forms of everyday power, more dependent on vast distant social machines, more isolated and atomized--and therefore more susceptible to despotism.

He warned that if the "habits of the heart" fed by civic clubs and active self-government evaporated, citizens would regress to pure egoism. They would stop thinking about things greater than their immediate circle. Public life would disappear. And that would only accelerate their own disempowerment.

This is painfully close to a description of the United States since Trump and Europe since Brexit. And the only way to reverse this vicious cycle of retreat and atrophy is to reverse it: to find a sense of purpose that is greater than the self, and to exercise power with others and for others in democratic life. — Eric Liu

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides. — Sarah Addison Allen

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up — Chogyam Trungpa

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors. — Ewan McGregor

I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled. — Muqtada Al Sadr

I think," Nick snarled, "that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards. — Judith McNaught

A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely — Christopher J. Nolan

If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring. — Demi Lovato

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass

Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it. — Pope Innocent III

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens ... We roamed the countryside. — William Moseley

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models. — Omar Bongo

For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots. — Chuck Bednarik