Leadbetter Point Quotes & Sayings

Adolin nodded curtly. He was still angry, Dalinar could see, but he chose to follow Dalinar - and part of following a leader was supporting him even when the battle turned against him. — Brandon Sanderson

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth. — James Anthony Froude

Academic training actively deprives you of the qualities that make for good teaching. A good teacher speaks plainly, in vivid, accessible language, because she is addressing what amounts to a general audience. But the kind of jargon academics learn to use is designed to repel the uninitiated. A good teacher ranges widely, making connections among subjects as well as from learning to life. But academics are constrained to specialize, and increasingly, to hyperspecialize, looking neither left nor right as they plow their little corner of the field. — William Deresiewicz

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? — Mahalia Jackson

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. — Isaac Watts

Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things. — Nicole Krauss