Niccum Educational Trust Quotes & Sayings

When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete. — Walt Whitman

It's okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don't let them change you. — Taylor Swift

I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in. — Willem Dafoe

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use. — Albert J. Nock

Chibi was a jewel of a cat. — Takashi Hiraide

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing. — Malcolm Bradbury

In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities. — Charles M. Blow

I like children - fried. — W.C. Fields

Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption. — Mohamed El-Erian

While I was wallowing in self-pity, focused on myself, there was a whole world with literally billions of people who had no idea who God is, how amazing He is, and the wonders He has done for us. They are the ones who are really suffering. They don't know His hope, His peace, and His love that transcends all understanding. They don't know the message of the gospel. — Nabeel Qureshi

I realized my room was just next to hers.
It was a mirror image of her room, but completely different in all of the ways that couldn't be seen. This shower hadn't washed away our pretenses last night; we hadn't slept together, curled around each other in this bed. These walls hadn't been filled with the sounds of her coming apart beneath me. This desk wasn't broken from a late-morning quickie. — Christina Lauren

Of course I'm smart. What were you expecting-'Lordy, Mr. Lawyer Man, I don't know nuthin' 'bout filin' no injunction'? Please, Alayna muttered. — Karyn Langhorne Folan

Academic "units" (that is, departments) are seen as "revenue centers"; the ones that can't pull their weight - much of the liberal arts - are slated for downsizing or outright elimination. Science is king, but not just any science; basic research is suffering, too. The holy grail is technology transfer: scientific investigation, often sponsored directly by corporations, that is capable of being parlayed into profit. — William Deresiewicz

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes. — Karen Duffy