Kotschwar James Quotes & Sayings

Every moment of your life is lived for the future - you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. It — John Green

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you — Marcus Aurelius

The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches, and the press. In the schools, they kindle patriotism in the children by means of histories describing their own people as the best of all peoples and always in the right. Among adults they kindle it by spectacles, jubilees, monuments, and by a lying patriotic press. Above all, they inflame patriotism in this way: perpetrating every kind of harshness and injustice against other nations, they provoke in them enmity towards their own people, and then in turn exploit that enmity to embitter their people against the foreigner. — Leo Tolstoy

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf. — Lord Byron

Blame is the lie by which we convince ourselves that we are victims. It is the lie that robs us of our serenity, our generosity, our confidence, an our delight in life ... For it is the act of blaming that can't co-exist with self-responsibility
or with freedom from inner agitation and strained relationships. Abandon the practice of blaming, and we see the fear melt away that we have associated with being honest about ourselves and taking the full measure of responsibility for our emotional and spiritual condition. — C. Terry Warner

I'm fine, thanks for not asking. — Sarah Ockler

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk. — Mel Tillis

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era
but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything. — Hunter S. Thompson

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity. — Eugene Richards

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares! — Kacey Musgraves

There might be a space too, for this. The feel of killing, there might be an empty spot just waiting to be filled. — Gillian Flynn

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them. — Margaret Atwood

I have a purity ring. — Teyana Taylor