Izdienas Quotes & Sayings

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success. — Sri Aurobindo

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it. — Agnes Repplier

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody. — Jerry Spinelli

Despite the hour, customers already flooded the market, men, women, and children of every color and race looking for the magic cure to their problems. They were what allowed the poachers to exist. They'd stop poaching if people stopped buying. — Ilona Andrews

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow. — John Dewey

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness. — Benjamin Rush

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other. — Mia Hamm

I look pretty good. More than good, actually, but I'm not a teenager anymore. Caution: Contents may have shifted during flight. — Qwen Salsbury