Jing Si Aphorisms Quotes & Sayings

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another. — John Dewey

My ignorance is becoming a theme." --Mare Barrow — Victoria Aveyard

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music. — Johnny Otis

For goodness, growing to a plurisy,
Dies in his own too much: that we would do
We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, — William Shakespeare

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies. — Brenda Blethyn

I believe in people treating each other with respect. — Richard Hell

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around. — Jim Pattison

Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for. — Paul G. Hoffman

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. — Shunryu Suzuki

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather. — Isabel Allende

They'll pay for this. All of it. I promise. One day they'll pay. — Mary E. Pearson

Within the limits of their nature, they make do with what they have. — Yann Martel

I'm not funny. What I am is brave. — Lucille Ball