Olwyn Donnelly Quotes & Sayings

In America, however, many people still believed in a different standard, one that explained a great deal about the country's enduring mediocrity in education: According to this logic, students who passed the required classes and came to school the required number of days should receive their diplomas, regardless of what they had learned or what would happen to them when they tried to get a job at the Bama Companies. Those kids deserved a chance to fail later, not now. It was a perverse sort of compassion designed for a different century. — Anonymous

If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible. — Fred Thompson

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance. — Charlotte Eriksson

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee. — William Shakespeare

When it's football season, I'm all football. — Hayden Fry

Holes are good for making friends, and friends are the best fillers I've found yet. Maybe because other people are the closest we get to God on this side. So when we use them to find God in each other, we become holy. — Glennon Doyle Melton

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes. — Kameron Hurley

The truth is known in silence. Be still and know. — Leonard Jacobson

When a man sits down in quietness to listen to the teachings of his spirit, many things will come to him in knowledge and understanding. ~ ~ ~ — Roberta Falkner

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. — Joey Bishop

I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case. — Patricia Millett

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. — Charles Sturt

Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...