Lattes Curriculum Quotes & Sayings

They wanted to kill her, so this Vhalla would die, she resolved, and a new Vhalla would be born from her ashes. — Elise Kova

Remember me as I tried to be, not as I was." ~Urza, The Brother's War — Jeff Grubb

Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good. — Oscar Pistorius

It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work ...
A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.
(pg.87, "Think Little") — Wendell Berry

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part. — Margaret Halsey

Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you give me to remember you by? - or, even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help? — Shirley Jackson

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes. — Vinod Khosla

Everyone else carries a backpack, but not Josh. He has a cool, beat-up messenger bag, covered with stickers protesting all kinds of things. — Elizabeth Scott

For here, the moment all the spaces along the road between here and there - which the young know are infinite and all others know are not - get used up, that's it. — Galway Kinnell

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind ... a mutual understanding of each other. I haven't felt this way in forever. — Simone Elkeles

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. — Baltasar Gracian