Maaretta Jaukkuri Quotes & Sayings

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change. — George Ayittey

Everyone deserves happiness, Rax. Even the lowest of the low. Even us. — Kendall Grey

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system ... is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not. — Carl Rogers

There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure. — Maya Angelou

Prattle without practice — William Shakespeare

Sometimes you have to let things go. Sometimes you have to stop caring for a minute. — Trina Etmanskie

On that ledge in the blackness, she'd truly recognized for the first time in her life that some creatures who went bump in the night might hate that they did. — Kresley Cole

Thank you, Caleb said, and hugged me once more. Part of me wanted to stay in Caleb's arms, because he'd always had this grounding effect on me. Caleb was my rational side. He was more than that; other than my mother, he was the first person I'd ever truly loved.
Caleb would always be my best friend. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea. — Paul Rand

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes. — Li Shan

Today these four crops account for two thirds of the calories we eat. When you consider that humankind has historically consumed some eighty thousand edible species, and that three thousand of these have been in widespread use, this represents a radical simplification of the human diet. Why should this concern us? Because humans are omnivores, requiring somewhere between fifty and a hundred different chemical compounds and elements in order to be healthy. — Michael Pollan

After four thousand years we can't even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer. — Peter Watts

I find that kind of "look at me" narcissism terribly inconsiderate. If you need attention that badly, set yourself on fire. — Joan Rivers

A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success. — Raffaella Barker

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. — Sean Penn