Miseducating Quotes & Sayings

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist. — Leymah Gbowee

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. — James Madison

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom. — Richard Dooling

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness? — Robin Hobb

You wouldn't understand anything that isn't drinking, smoking, or womanizing."
He shook his head. "You're the only one I want, Rose. — Richelle Mead

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' — Hill Harper

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel. — Frederick C. Beiser

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness. — George D. Prentice

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that. — Francisco Costa

The Greatest Generation?
They tell me I am a member of the greatest generation. That's because I saw combat duty as a bombardier in World War 11. But I refuse to celebrate "the greatest generation" because in so doing we are celebrating courage and sacrifice in the cause of war. And we are miseducating the young to believe that military heroism is the noblest form of heroism, when it should be remembered only as the tragic accompaniment of horrendous policies driven by power and profit. The current infatuation with World War 11 prepares us
innocently on the part of some, deliberately on the part of others
for more war, more military adventures, more attempts to emulate the military heroes of the past. — Howard Zinn

Folks fall down all the time.. The key is to get back up ASAP — Sereda Aleta Dailey

She'd always assumed that falling in love would be like getting slammed into a brick wall. That you'd just be going along as usual and you'd get knocked on your ass and think, Gee, I guess I'm in love. But it hadn't happened that way. It had just kind of snuck up on her before she'd realized it. It had happened one smile and one touch at a time. One look. One kiss. One pink cat collar. One pinch to the heart and one breathless anticipation after another until she was in so deep there was no denying it. No turning back before it was too late. No more lying about what she felt. — Rachel Gibson

And god damit,
I can barely say your name,
So I'll try to write it,
And fill the pen with blood from the sink. — Pierce The Veil

Marriage will not solve "aloneness." — Myles Munroe

I want these tiny snippets of perfection between us to be our constant reality. — Colleen Hoover

wished she'd done differently and then get older and understand that she had done the best she could and realize that what she had done was pretty damn good and take her fully back into my arms again. Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance. It had forced me to instantly grow up and forgive her every motherly fault at the same time that it kept me forever a child, my life both ended and begun in that premature place where we'd left off. She — Cheryl Strayed

Being aware of who you are, you will ensure that you do not waste your time spending energy on unnecessary things — Sunday Adelaja