Jakyron Quotes & Sayings

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible. — Geoffrey Canada

Thats the thing about people who mean every thing they say. They think everybody else does too. — Khaled Hosseini

Are you French?' I asked instead.

'Oui!'

Foreign. Foreign spy. French Communist Party acted on Stalin's instructions during part of World War II. French Communist spy.

Stop it stop it stop it

I turned to Art, a black kid who was a foot and a half taller than me and whose pecs were about to burst of his shirt and eat someone. I gave him a two on the delusion detector. I didn't trust those pecs.

'Hi,' he rumbled.

I waved weakly. — Francesca Zappia

My door is open. — Max Baucus

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were. — Duke Of Wellington

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want. — Shahla Khan

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit. — Roy Lichtenstein

If I don't agree with something, I let people know, and it occasionally leads to tension. But I usually iron things out. — Estelle

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. — Dale Carnegie

By the time she'd run to the edge of the crater, Bazine's mentor and once-friend was climbing over the edge, bruised and scratched up but mostly unharmed. — Delilah S. Dawson

If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty. — Rajiv Shah

How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings? — Sally Painter

There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives. — Betty Shine

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents. — William Lyon Phelps

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee — Ben Jonson