Lehrman Lehrman Quotes & Sayings

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world. — Aravind Adiga

I may not have been the first to wish to marry her, but I am the one who succeeded. — Eloisa James

Death by hanging ... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right. — Arthur Seyss-Inquart

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

I have become cynical because I speak the truth. — Amit Abraham

The buddhi [intellect] is today's gain, it is today's experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature's gift! — Dada Bhagwan

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. — Samuel Beckett

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for. — Esther Forbes

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. — Muriel Rukeyser

The past is just the present at a future time. — Maranda Evans

Men are like beer. Some are bold and some are smooth. But every damn one of 'em has a big-ass head full of air. — Lois Greiman

The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them. — Ken Robinson

This is the stuff dreams are made of, right?"
I could've pointed out the misquotation; everybody goes for Humphrey Bogarst's famous like from The Maltese Falcon, when the words actually are "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" and they belong to Master Shakespeare, but you know what? With all due to respect to the women's movement, the fact is that, on rare occasions, silence really is a girl's best garment.
So I just smiled instead. — Ramona Wray