Headmisstress Crouch Quotes & Sayings

This is the most frightening lesson of the Cultural Revolution: Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country. This is as true now as it was then. Thirty — Ji-li Jiang

The celebrated opening image of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is another case in point:
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table ...
How, the reader wonders, can the evening look like an anaesthetised body? Yet the point surely lies as much in the force of this bizarre image as in its meaning. We are in a modern world in which settled correspondences or traditional affinities between things have broken down. In the arbitrary flux of modern experience, the whole idea of representation - of on thing predictably standing for another - has been plunged into crisis; and this strikingly dislocated image, one which more or less ushers in 'modern' poetry with a rebellious flourish, is a symptom of this bleak condition. — Terry Eagleton

Writing ... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are. — Margaret Atwood

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value. — Gretchen Rubin

I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire. — Lynn Nottage

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? — Jules Verne

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. — Gustav Stresemann

Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity ... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system. — Samuel Adams

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings. — Ann Jillian

There's nothing like being called a feminine hygiene product to keep you from crying. — Brent Crawford

To some people, bankers - code word for Jewish - and guess who Obama's assaulting? He's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse there. — Rush Limbaugh

Everyone child of humanity deserves peace and freedom. It's in their DNA! — Timothy Pina