Jipeta J Quotes & Sayings

Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Tim Kimmel

He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic; the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma - we cannot make a mistake. — Christopher Isherwood

In a letter to Gouverneur Morris (February 27, 1802), he drops into the following gloomy forebodings: -

"Mine is an odd destiny. Perhaps no man in the United States has sacrificed or done more for the present Constitution than myself; and, contrary to all my anticipations of its fate, as you know, from the very beginning, I am still laboring to prop the frail and worthless fabric. Yet I have the murmurs of its friends no less than the curses of its foes for my reward. What can I do better than withdraw from the scene? Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me. — Charles A. Conant

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ? — Saint Augustine

For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. One can no longer cheat - hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest so loudly, which protect us so well from the pain of being alone). — Albert Camus

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Awful fondness you people have for knives. It's really not right. — Theresa Romain

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?' — Tracy Chapman

As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it. — Karine Vanasse

At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect. — Mao Zedong

What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference. — Mie Hansson

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. — Ellen Key

Or, if you are Penokio, you will feel like: I wud rather not be made of wud. I wud rather be made of skin, so my father Jipeta will stop hitting me with a hamer. — George Saunders

God took a child from me, darling Ove. But he gave me a thousand others. — Fredrik Backman

If the principle of protection from foreign pests were followed out legitimately by all countries, it would practically stop the commerce of the world," Marlatt said. "Either we must build a Chinese wall and live entirely apart from the rest of mankind or make up our minds ultimately to be common possessors of the evils as well as the benefits of all the world. — Amanda Harris