Patnja Quotes & Sayings

The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes. — Karl Friedrich Bahrdt

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F. — Calvin Johnson

Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family. — Rosecrans Baldwin

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating. — Yoko Ono

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out. — Janet Macunovich

Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick. — Bonnie Bassler

We crave a world of either/or, but the Dream says, Both/and. We build a wall between our social persona and our inner selves; the Dream bids us, Demolish it. We wish to believe we're separate from one another, but the Dream insists, We are in this together. We are pleased to believe Time is a one-way river from past to present to future, yet the Dream reveals, All three times flow into one. We wish to seek pure virtue and avoid all stain, but the Dream avers, The dark and the light are braided and bound. — Marc Ian Barasch

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader. — Jami Attenberg

We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is the only country in the world where women and men report that they attend the mosque in equal numbers, but our institutions aren't representing this reality. — Dalia Mogahed

Stephen Sondheim said : If you know where you're going, you've gone. Move on. — Jennifer Crusie