Motivating Learners Quotes & Sayings

Oddly emphatic, as if she'd been waiting all day for a chance to discuss the weather. — Tom Perrotta

My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing. — Victor Hugo

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace. — Diana Wynne Jones

While mankind tends toward evil, the legislators yearn for good; while mankind advances toward darkness, the legislators aspire for enlightenment; while mankind is drawn toward vice, the legislators are attracted toward virtue. Since they have decided that this is the true state of affairs, they then demand the use of force in order to substitute their own inclinations for those of the human race. — Frederic Bastiat

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise. — Dan Makaon

Give me some more wine, because life is nothing. — Fernando Pessoa

You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion. — Mike Rowe