Mikiya Kokutou Quotes & Sayings

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression. — Karen Salmansohn

Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion? — Lisa Kleypas

The overemphasis on standardized tests forces teachers to teach the same restricted, unintuitive curriculum. Longtime educator Brent Evans has said that today's schools are organized as assembly lines, "(running at a set speed) and with each worker (teacher) at designated places (way levels) on the assembly line performing predetermined actions on products (students) considered to be somewhat generic (one-size-fits-all) and passive (waiting to be filled or formed to the desired shape). — Brent Evans

You are what what you eat eats. — Michael Pollan

For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion. — Mark Hodder

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. — Donald Davis