Northwesterns Quotes & Sayings

Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjuna. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices. — Steven Magee

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful. — Cassie Scerbo

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me. — William Jerome

Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it. — Van Morrison

you're not dead-you're dormant. — Cheryl Nielsen

It doesn't matter who's voting, it matters who's counting. — Malalai Joya

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. — Christina Hoff Sommers

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. — Keith Miller

Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place. — Antonio Gramsci

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it. — Jon Ronson

The phrase "working mother" is redundant. — Jane Sellman

O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness! — Philip Sidney

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong. — Robert Kuttner