Latticed Plaitwork Quotes & Sayings

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I believe that it is dangerous for a young person simply to go from achieving goal after goal, generally being praised along the way. So it is good for a young person to experience his limit, occasionally to be dealt with critically, to suffer his way through a period of negativity, to recognise his own limits himself, not simply to win victory after victory. A human being needs to endure something in order to learn to assess himself correctly, and not least to learn to think with others. Then he will not simply judge others hastily and stay aloof, but rather accept them positively, in his labours and his weaknesses. — Pope Benedict XVI

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. — Mason Cooley

The part that hurt the most was that no matter how upset he was, he still loved her and he wanted that feeling to go away. — Bernadette Marie

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding. — Douglas Coupland

Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic bombs above ground, when we watched them for entertainment from the roofs of our high schools, little did we know what was raining down on us, little did we know what would appear years later. — Terry Tempest Williams