Juventutem Michigan Quotes & Sayings

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. — Nas

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. — Margaret Of Valois

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut. — Gwendoline Riley

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive. — Natalie Goldberg

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends. — Mel Odom

This was my first hint that morality often involves tension within the group linked to competition between different groups. — Jonathan Haidt

In most important ways, this world is explicitly antibureaucratic: that is, it evinces an explicit rejection of virtually all the core values of bureaucracy. — David Graeber

People believe in the power of education to change lives. — Gordon Brown

I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that. — Naguib Sawiris

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. — C. Northcote Parkinson

We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. — Wendell Berry

A thing not structured and organized contains more information, because it is more difficult to describe — Tor Norretranders

In our dreams, we can't see anything that we haven't put it there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I shouldn't be allowed to think when I'm drinking. — Tara Sivec