Greathouse Elementary Quotes & Sayings

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. — George Orwell

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future. — Gordon B. Hinckley

But also, there is much sorrow, not only of the dramatic kind but also in the way that difficult economic circumstances wear people down, eroding them, preying on their weaknesses, until they do things that they themselves find hateful, until they are shadows of their best selves. The — Teju Cole

Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a trade. Find the person who did the wrong thing and they will suffer instead of the one who was killed. Instead, that person just suffers too. — Mariah Fredericks

Make criticism in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event. — Mao Tse-tung

The world will tell you how to live, if you let it. Don't let it. Take up your space. Raise your voice. Sing your song. This is your chance to make or remake a life that thrills you. — Shauna Niequist

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch. — Marilyn Monroe

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being soft on Basques. — Mark Kurlansky

Life isn't about how many days I live, but how I live the days I have. — Jill Williamson

People being nice for no apparent reason always made me suspicious. People being nice to me with no apparent reason made me even more suspicious. — Maggie Stiefvater

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently. — Michael Ledeen

Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe. — Gautama Buddha

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray. — Billy Graham