Meerschweine Quotes & Sayings

Death is the quiet haven of us all. — William Wordsworth

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery. — Anthony Mackie

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands ... searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living ... for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences ... Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.
-Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969 — Hillary Rodham Clinton

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. — George Santayana

What pleases is what is terrible, gentle, and poetic. — Georges Franju

What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being. — John De Ruiter

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life ... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice. — Jean Anouilh

Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. It was also understood by the elites. Emerson once said something about how we're educating them to keep them from our throats. If you don't educate them, what we call "education," they're going to take control - "they" being what Alexander Hamilton called the "great beast," namely the people. — Noam Chomsky

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. — Julia Roberts

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold! — Douglas MacArthur

May you live all the days of your life. — Jonathon Swift

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important. — Ellen Ochoa

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it. — Liam Gallagher