Pinskers Quotes & Sayings

If you teach a child to pass a test, he will learn for a day. If you teach a child to understand how he learns, he will learn for a lifetime." -- Kelly Flynn — Kelly Flynn

My thoughts hold mortal strife, I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries, Peace to my soul to bring, Oft calls that prince which here doth monarchize; But he, grim-grinning king, Who caitiffs scorns and doth the blest surprise, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come. — William Drummond

Mom used to walk with me for something like two or three miles to get to the day-old bakery. They had those machines where you buy doughnuts, those vending machines with the long johns and doughnuts. We would buy those bagels and pastries because that was our treat. And come back with shopping bags of these sweets, and who knows what was in it? That was what we could afford that could feed that many people. — Sandra Cisneros

While there might be some people who were natural diplomats, she wasn't one of them. She was forever butting heads with people, challenging them when she should have been convincing them, raising hackles where she should have been raising support. She had always been in a hurry, without always knowing where she wanted to go; she was too impatient to wait for the right time or the right confluence of events. — Robert Masello

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it. — Leo Tolstoy

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements. — Gilbert Ryle

Little fictions. That's what her father called them. Not lies, just stories to twist the brain into a new shape, to allow the light to spill in with a different color, to throw rainbows instead of shadows. — Hugh Howey

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. — Hermann Hesse

If you are happy with the journey you can give up the destination! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He dreams of buying a new car, but she flatly says, "We can't afford it. — Gary Chapman

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. — Jodi Picoult

I do like to dress up and look nice, and I'm inspired by people who do the same - people who express themselves through how they dress. — Skylar Astin

Let the people who want to have kids, have them. And let the rest of us spend the extra money on ourselves. Being gay doesn't make you a bad person. Not wanting kids doesn't make you a bad person. Perhaps crushing the bones in one little girl's hand makes you a bad person, but that was an accident. — Augusten Burroughs

The whole world seemed to unroll like a pornographic film whose tragic theme is impotence. — Henry Miller

That tingle in the brain is called a word.
It bats itself against its fleshy bounds. — Kate Kearns