Huckleberry Finn Vernacular Quotes & Sayings

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about. — Paul Graham

Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto. — George Weigel

We are told, "You're a good boy," or "You're a good girl," when we do what Mom and Dad want us to do. When we don't, we are "a bad girl" or "a bad boy." When we went against the rules we were punished; when we went along with the rules we got a reward. We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward. — Miguel Ruiz

A criminal never knew how to rule power.
P.C.M. Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 26, 2016
Babaji — Petra Hermans

People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides. — Akhil Sharma

Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection
the kind that never demands it of others. — Martine Leavitt

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it. — Dean Smith

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right. — Helen Keller

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie. — Nancy Gibbs

Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror. — Regina Brett

Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor". — Sherman Alexie