Jeffster Take Quotes & Sayings

Laugh while you've got the chance, you won't laugh much when you are dead and buried. — W. Somerset Maugham

[A woman's] education should be as varied and perfect as possible. If for no other reason to enable her properly to educate and rear her own children. Whatever grand truths are planted in the mother's mind may take root in the next generation, and there grow, blossom, and shed their perfume on the world. The child receives the mother's very thought by intuition. If the mother's mind is weak and narrow in its range, the child is affected by this fact long before it finds meaning in the mother's words. But if the mother's mind is cultured and refined by study until her thoughts are grand and far-reaching, the child's soul will grow and expand under the mesmeric influence of these thoughts, as the plant grows under the influence of the sun. — Karen Andreola

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". — Swami Vivekananda

Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives. — Chelsea Cain

It's as if our girls don't understand that they can be recognized for other things
their goals, their brains. Not just their bodies. — Siobhan Vivian

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing. — Perry Chen

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy. — Sugata Mitra

In linking holy and without blemish (or without blame) so closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to seek for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power in the blamelessness of practice and of daily life. — Andrew Murray

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect. — Pierre Beaumarchais

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it. — Cary Fukunaga

Where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. — Robert Bly

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings. — Plutarch

Careless talk costs lives. — Elizabeth Wein