Gemischte Quotes & Sayings

Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it. — Robert Reich

If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I'll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet — Lee Donghae

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day. — Samuel Johnson

We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer. — Monica Crowley

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress. — Maimonides

Pushed forward. A flying elbow struck his cheekbone just below his — Stephen King

Each success brings with it the potential of failure
and each failure brings with it the potential of success. — John F. Kennedy

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself. — Olive Schreiner

Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged. — Avis Bohlen

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. — John Muir

The news of my pregnancy got out when I was in the middle of my first trimester. I hadn't even had a chance to tell my friends. That alone was so ugly. It made me hyper-protective ... I feel uncomfortable with people reading too much about my pregnancy or my relationship. It grosses me out. It's too sweet to read about or dissect ... — Jennifer Garner

And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself — Leo Tolstoy