Missing School Days Sad Quotes & Sayings

The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it. — Nathan Wolfe

What can a state institution teach us? In what way can I be reformed by a penal colony and you by, say, Russian TV Channel 1? In his Nobel lecture, Joseph Brodsky said, 'The more substantial an individual's aesthetic experience is, the sounder his taste, the sharper his moral focus, the freer - though not necessarily the happier - he is.' We in Russia once again find ourselves in a situation where resistance, especially aesthetic resistance, becomes the only viable moral choice as well as a civic duty." Nadya — Masha Gessen

In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge. — Elizabeth Strout

Viewer-hungry news outlets manipulate our fear response and our brain's inability to distinguish "real" threats from the abstract and anomalous terrors across the globe that appear within seconds on our smart phones and TVs. We live in an objectively safer world than ever before, but we're bombarded with fear-triggering messages and worried about issues that likely won't affect us and are far from our control. We are arguably consumed with fear. — Margee Kerr

Have a colourful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots. — Kristen Bell

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life. — Andre Rieu

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are. — John Lennon

I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it. — Mark Mulder

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist! — Tove Lo

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too. — Al Kaline

He found the hard bud of her clit with his thumb and began rubbing in a circle. "Is that what you like?" he whispered in her ear. "A slow rub on that pretty little button? Or do you want my fingers, pumping in and out of your pussy? — Megan Erickson

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me. — Barbra Streisand