Maxine Greene Famous Quotes & Sayings

But that's a lie, and you know it. — John Green

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life. — Simon Van Booy

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics. — Michelle Obama

When you live through the ego, you always reduce the present moment to a means to an end. You live for the future, and when you achieve your goals, they don't satisfy you, at least not for long. When you give more attention to the doing than to the future result that you want to achieve through it, you break the old egoic conditioning. Your doing then becomes not only a great deal more effective, but infinitely more fulfilling and joyful. — Eckhart Tolle

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. — Terry Eagleton

May you have courage to pursue thy dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world. — G.K. Chesterton

Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue. — Maria Popova

Thank God, who delivered us from great death, the doom of distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor. — P. J. O'Rourke

And there were ruined castles covered with ivy - the badge of the old order, clinging to its own; and into the ivy doves dived, seeming to leave in their wake a trail of amethyst, just as a clump of bottle-green leaves is shot with purple by the knowledge that it hides violets. — Hope Mirrlees

To call any proposition certain, while there is any one who would deny its certainty if permitted, but who is not permitted, is to assume that we ourselves, and those who agree with us, are the judges of certainty, and judges without hearing the other side. — John Stuart Mill

I didn't marry the mob; I was born into it. — Shay Savage