Myles Horton The Long Haul Quotes & Sayings

Staring thus closely at time we suddenly realize that what many look upon as a bromide is really a bombshell; namely, the fact that "there is no time like the present." Indeed, no! For it is the only time God grants to any of us. He does not give us years, months, days, or even hours. He grants us nothing but the truly, indivisible, yet immense and immeasurable, Now. This is "your time" - part of "your hour. — M. Raymond

Your success is dependent upon what you do when you do not want to. — M.F. Moonzajer

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life. — Carmen Boullosa

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer. — Bo Lozoff

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business. — Andrew Forrest

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good. — Vivienne Westwood

What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it. — Foster Friess

Real love was dangerous, it got you from inside and held on tight, and if you didn't let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake. — Alice Hoffman

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right. — Yannick Noah

Doesn't it scare you having your death close by all the time?" said Lyra. "Why ever would it? If he's there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was. — Philip Pullman

Imagine that you have to break someone's arm. — Hugh Laurie

When a marriage dies, there's no corpse to grieve over, no place to put flowers. — Alex A. King

The situation would be very much the same if we should place a teacher who, according to our conception of the term, is scientifically prepared, in one of the public schools where the children are repressed in the spontaneous expression of their personality till they are almost like dead beings. In such a school the children, like butterflies mounted on pins, are fastened each to his place, the desk, spreading the useless wings of barren and meaningless knowledge which they have acquired. — Maria Montessori