Paedogogical Quotes & Sayings

If my wish was my reality, Kay, I'd be sitting in the backyard in the sun, peeling an orange. — Patricia Cornwell

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. — Charles Babbage

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow. — Dylan O'Brien

To say that God elects to fashion rational creatures in his image, and so grants them the freedom to bind themselves and the greater physical order to another master - to say that he who sealed up the doors of the sea might permit them to be opened again by another, more reckless hand - is not to say that God's ultimate design for his creatures can be thwarted. It is to acknowledge, however, that his will can be resisted by a real and (by his grace) autonomous force of defiance, or can be hidden from us by the history of cosmic corruption, and that the final realization of the good he intends in all things has the form (not simply as a dramatic fiction, for our edification or his glory, nor simply as a paedogogical device on his part, but in truth) of a divine victory. — David Bentley Hart

Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: "I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better. — Thelonious Monk

In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide. — Iris Murdoch

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself. — Joseph Hall

Everything you hate holds you back from growing. Everything you love helps you to grow. — Debasish Mridha

He was so proud that she had more going on north of her neck than her hairdo. — Mary Karr

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. — John Marshall

Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity. — Dean Koontz

Jesus not only revealed God's glory on earth; he died so that that glory would be the final resting place of our hearts. — Paul David Tripp