Optional Standard Testing Quotes & Sayings

Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew longer and wider and ate the black like a fungus until the darkness was gone and there was light and it was day. — Matthew McBride

Time was the lubricant that allowed the mechanism of the universe to function smoothly. — Dean Koontz

Typical sentient's psyche is a spiderweb. Pull on the right thread and you will get the desired result. Praise them and they will like you. Ridicule them and they'll hate you. Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason. A zealot's psyche is a tightrope. They have severed everything else in favor of their goal. They will pay any price for their victory, and that makes them infinitely more dangerous. — Ilona Andrews

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like. — Laurence J. Peter

The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history. — Chogyam Trungpa

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning. — Ludwig Von Mises

I'll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I'll find them. — Oriana Fallaci

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it. — Rachel Hunter

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! — Benjamin Franklin