Pallais Memorial Middle School Quotes & Sayings

But your dad's enjoying it. He's been rigging traps — Shannon Messenger

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak. — Jeff Chang

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. — Eric Hoffer

I had to open my eyes, so I could see a new life! — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views. — Peter J. Tomasi

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler

Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it is possible to go from a single cell to a complicated human body, with its trillions of cells organized into bones and muscles and nerves, a heart that pumps without ceasing for decades, miles and miles of blood vessels and kidney tubules, and a brain capable of thinking and talking and feeling. JBS: But madam, you did it yourself. And it only took you nine months. — Richard Dawkins

The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk. — Jonathan Kozol

My life is like the summer rose
That opens to the morning sky,
But ere the shades of evening close
Is scattered on the ground - to die. — Richard Henry Wilde

Misery! - happiness is to be found by its side! — Lao-Tzu

Sometimes I can't think of anything but every wrong thing I've ever done. — Ruthie Knox

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man." — Diogenes

You can only go to places that you will let yourself go. — Charles Yu

You have the right to claim blessing, healing, protection, freedom, deliverance, because He was unjustly nailed to a cross so you could have a life that is fulfilling. — T. B. Joshua