Nortesten Quotes & Sayings

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. — Derek Bok

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher. — Swami Vivekananda

You sure you don't want me to bring you back something?" Her eyes moved in the direction of his office. "A hit man? Some holy water? — Christina Lauren

Friends are ourselves. — John Donne

I've only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. — Roman Payne

Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love? — Jonathan Safran Foer

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised. — Elbert Hubbard

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake. — Jon Stewart

Please look after this bear. — Michael Bond

Whoever is trying to bring you down is already beneath you. — Habeeb Akande

[W]ithout a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality. — Patti Smith

You are a tedious fool. — William Shakespeare

As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him. — Catherine Parr