Lander University Quotes & Sayings

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart. — Dolly Parton

I wanted to say, 'Wait - I am not sure I want to do this - I don't know if I am ready.' I turned my head and saw him climb onto the wing and hop down onto the pavement. He didn't give me a chance to tell him I hadn't decided yet whether or not I was going to solo. Didn't he know I wasn't a real aviator? I was only a doctor, after all, and doctors weren't required to solo.
It was too late to tell him anything. I was going flying." (Page 199) — David B. Crawley

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal. — Francis Bacon

Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so ... They will come to know that the natural tendency of the individual in a group is to forfeit his or her ethical judgment to the leader, and that this tendency should be resisted. And they will finally see it as each individual's responsibility to continually examine himself or herself for laziness and narcissism and then to purify themselves accordingly. — M. Scott Peck

Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought? — David Finkel

I have vanquished giants, and I have sent villains and malefactors to her, but where can they find her if she has been enchanted and transformed into the ugliest peasant girl anyone can imagine? — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Today the brightest light in the Scottish political firmament has gone out. — Jim Sillars

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could. — Paulo Coelho