Ishares Quotes & Sayings

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there's really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn't come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious. — Maxine Greene

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick. — Bill Hicks

What I've noticed in a lot of other cartoonists is a sullen resentfulness about their lack of attention and tiny checking accounts. I vowed back in the days when I had no money that I would not allow that kind of bitterness to overtake me ... Cartooning, in general, is a very solitary occupation, and it breeds all sorts of self-punishing thinking — Matt Groening

I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology. — Vinod Khosla

Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Showing respect for others when they don't agree with you, and during the times when you don't agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully. — Ellen J. Barrier

Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society. — Narissa Doumani

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up. — Henry David Thoreau

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy. — Lynn Johnston

The formal operational thinker has the ability to consider many different solutions to a problem before acting. This greatly increases efficiency, because the individual can avoid potentially unsuccessful attempts at solving a problem. The formal operational person considers past experiences, present demands, and future consequences in attempting to maximize the success of his or her adaptation to the world. — Neil J. Salkind

So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable. — Augustine Of Hippo

And he makes me think ... that it'll be okay. That I don't have to worry about screwing it up. — Rainbow Rowell

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. — Oscar Wilde

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. — Seneca The Younger

On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found ... a swarm of ... small, blue butterflies drinking the water. ... I only went that way on sunny days and each time the dense, blue swarm was there, and each time it was a holiday. — Hermann Hesse