Lenika Milne Quotes & Sayings

Dear children, don't eat anything healthy at home, just keep eating those hamburgers — Bill Kaulitz

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead. — John Martyn

SUCCESS is getting what you want, but HAPPINESS is wanting what you get. — Various

You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults."
"You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care. — James Boswell

Like the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, postmodernism seeks to institutionalize dishonesty as a legitimate school of thought. The idea of truth as the ultimate goal of the intellectual is discarded. In its place, scholars are asked to pursue political objectives
so long as those political objectives are the 'correct' ones. Postmodernism is not fringe within the community of scholars. It is central. This tells us a great deal about the life of the mind today. Peruse any university course catalogue, and you find names like Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes. Scour the footnotes of scholarly books and journals and a similar story unfolds. With the primacy of philosophies
postmodernism, Critical Theory, and even the right-leaning Straussianism
that exalt dishonesty in the service of supposedly noble causes, is it at all surprising that liars like Alfred Kinsey, Rigoberta Menchu, Alger Hiss, and Margaret Sanger have achieved a venerated status among the intellectuals? — Daniel J. Flynn

A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. — Alan Rickman

Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair. — Hassanal Bolkiah

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

The historian's task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly. A well organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves. — Tony Judt

She carried herself like a queen,: gracefully, regal, and dignified. She was all woman and every inch a lady, and he had never seen her equal, not even in Paris. He was thinking she would make the perfect mistress, but at the same time, he wonder if she would accept such a role. Beautiful, arousing, and complicated meant nothing but trouble.-Alysandir — Elaine Coffman

Doona bring me back to life only to destroy me once more. — Kresley Cole