Nikolette Jones Quotes & Sayings

Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise. — Joe Abercrombie

In other words, ideas can become powerful forces, but only to the extent to which they are answers to specific human needs prominent in a given social character. — Erich Fromm

A final caution to students: in making judgments on literature, always be honest. Do not pretend to like what you really do not like. Do not be afraid to admit a liking for what you do like. A genuine enthusiasm for the second-rate is much better than false enthusiasm or no enthusiasm at all. Be neither hasty nor timorous in making your judgments. When you have attentively read a poem and thoroughly considered it, decide what you think. Do not hedge, equivocate, or try to find out others' opinions before forming your own. But having formed an opinion and expressed it, do not allow it to petrify. Compare your opinion then with the opinions of others; allow yourself to change it when convinced of its error: in this way you learn. Honestly, courage, and humility are the necessary moral foundations for all genuine literary judgment. — Laurence Perrine

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix. — Matt Groening

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away. — Pema Chodron

Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. — Gaylord Nelson