Kantine University Quotes & Sayings

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner

Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have. — Joseph E. Ledoux

We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childish has become a term of contempt.
"Don't be childish, darling."
"I hope to Christ I am. Don't be childish yourself."
It is possible to be grateful that no one that you would willingly associate with you say, "Be mature. Be well-balanced, be well-adjusted."
Africa, being as old as it is, makes all people except the professional invaders and spoilers into children. No one says to anyone in Africa, "Why don't you grow up?" ...
Men know that they are children in relation to the country and, as in armies, seniority and senility ride close together. But to have the heart of a child is not a disgrace. It is an honor. A man must comport himself as a man ... But it is never a reproach that he has kept a child's heart, a child's honesty and a child's freshness and nobility. — Ernest Hemingway,

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you. — William E. Simon

It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off! — Emma Watson

The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate. — Rand Paul

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational. — Hermann Broch

If our Christianity doesn't work at home, it doesn't work. — Alistair Begg

In time of war there is a unification of interests, especially if the war is fierce; but in time of peace the clash may be very great between the interests of one class and those of another. — Bertrand Russell

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time. — Johnny Damon

I think it is a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Vladimir Nabokov — Jodi Picoult