Mansoura Moodle Quotes & Sayings

If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with. — Imre Kertesz

And he has created eternity, which was to have measured his power, and which measures his unending defeat. — Stanislaw Lem

Compromise, eh? Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies and save the world. Then you get a little bit older, maybe Little Bee's age, and you realize that some of the world's badness is inside you, that maybe you're a part of it. And then you get a little bit older still, and a bit more comfortable, and you start wondering whether that badness you've seen in yourself is really all that bad at all. You start talking about ten percent. — Chris Cleave

Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say. — Dr. Seuss

There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions. — Walter Lippmann

I'll not be a hypocrite and dispute you over that. It's the custom and culture that up brings us to what's right and what's wrong. It's just easier to follow than to dispute. — Max Connelly

Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again. — Graham King

A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand. — John F. Kennedy

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit. — John Kenneth Galbraith

An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream. — A.S. Byatt

I use humour to hide behind, because I cannot bear to feel my feelings, cannot face the truth. — Sally Brampton

Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom? — Kate DiCamillo