Passivate Quotes & Sayings

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher. — Michael Bennet

They never saw a thing they liked, they never had a kind word to say and I never stopped listening to them; hence my demise. — Gary O. Thompson

Well," he abruptly broke the protracted silence. "Where can I kiss you?"
What?
"What?"
He lifted his fingers to my face, tucked a few loose strands of hair behind my ears. "Where can I kiss you goodbye?"
My stomach did a backflip, and I responded stupidly, "In the hall ... ?"
"No, Elizabeth. That's not what I meant. Where - on your body - am I allowed to kiss you? Where do your other friends kiss you? — Penny Reid

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody. — Shirley Franklin

Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief. — Mary Renault

We ought to remind ourselves daily, repeat it like a litany, that in our being lies concealed the whole gamut of existence ... Above all, we should cease postponing the act of becoming what in fact and essence we are. — Henry Miller

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else. — John Dear

Like other women writers of my class, I am expected to tame my talent to suit the comfort of my family. — Kamala Suraiyya Das