Jgac Quotes & Sayings

There is hope for survival of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Procrastination has become a it's own solution - a tool I can use to push myself so close to disaster that I become terrified and flee towards success. — Allie Brosh

The first time the three of us went to the movies together, he waited until you went to get popcorn, and then he said, "You don't mind, do you?" And I'd been so moved that he'd asked, that he wanted my permission. — David Levithan

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway. — Gelett Burgess

When people speak these days, about an inevitable "Clash of Civilizations" in our world, what they often mean, I fear, is an inevitable "Clash of Religions." But I would use different terminology altogether. The essential problem, as I see it, in relations between the Muslim world and the West is "A Clash of Ignorance." And what I would prescribe -- as an essential first step -- is a concentrated educational effort.

Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the "Tolerance" Award - 20 May 2006 (Tutzing, Germany) — Aga Khan

People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism. — Rudolf Rocker

The book of Isaiah is a tract for our own times; our very aversion to it testifies to its relevance. — Hugh Nibley

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind. — Frederick Lenz

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways. — Gloria Reuben

One of our greatest challenges is to handle Winning without arrogance, being educated without being condescending and having compassion without developing indifference — Kalon Jackson

Masters and parents used to remind us irritatingly that they too had once been young, and so could speak with authority. It's just a phase, they would insist. You'll grow out of it; life will teach you reality and realism. But back then we declined to acknowledge that they had ever been anything like us, and we knew that we grasped life
and truth, and morality, and art
far more clearly than our compromised elders. — Julian Barnes

A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite. — Adam Nicolson

What a frightened monster she was. — Maggie Stiefvater