Khumbulani High School Quotes & Sayings

I could spell it," I say. "Write it down." He hesitates at this novel idea. Possibly he doesn't remember I can. I've never held a pen or a pencil, in this room, not even to add up the scores. Women can't add, he once said, jokingly. When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four. What — Margaret Atwood

If to please the people,we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God. — George Washington

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist. — Jimmy Wales

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite. — Confucius

It's a dangerous business, making promises to kids. — Khaled Hosseini

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion. — Cyril Connolly

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions. — Gerald Jampolsky

The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: You apologize, but then you suffer. The problem is nobody wants the suffering. Everybody wants drive-through redemption. — Eric Dezenhall

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. — Orson Scott Card

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs. — Billy Crudup

In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest. — Martha Smith

I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy. — Emo Philips

There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and this vision, beyond these 'chases in Arras, dreams in a career,' beyond them all as beyond a veil. I do not know whether any human being has ever lifted that veil; but I do know, Clarke, that you and I shall see it lifted this very night from before another's eyes. You may think this all strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan. — Arthur Machen

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees. — Gary Hamel