Poptropica Island Quotes & Sayings

Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally. — Brian Goetz

What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it. — Dada Bhagwan

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture ... and thus have historical significance. — James Lafferty

If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are. — Hannah Harrington

Sonechka, meanwhile, placid soul that she was - cocooned by the thousand volumes of her reading, lulled by the hazy murmurings of the Greek myths, the hypnotically shrill recorder fluting of the Middle Ages, the misty windswept yearning of Ibsen, the minutely detailed tedium of Balzac, the astral music of Dante, the siren song of the piercing voices of Rilke and Novalis, seduced by the moralistic despair of the great Russian writers calling out to the heart of heaven itself - this placid soul had no awareness that her great moment was at hand. — Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Yesterday doesn't even look the same, and the only thing more beautiful than today is tomorrow. — Marc Marcel

How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento ... he's on the team. I ain't going. — Shaquille O'Neal

No man finds it difficult to return to nature, except the man who has deserted nature. We — Seneca.

If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don't have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don't have to be supremely gifted teachers. Most of the stuff parents do with flashcards and special drills and tutorials to hone their kids into perfect achievement machines don't have any effect at all. Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to be able to fall in tune with their kids' needs, combining warmth and discipline. They need to establish the secure emotional bonds that kids can fall back upon in the face of stress. They need to be there to provide living examples of how to cope with the problems of the world so that their children can develop unconscious models in their heads. — David Brooks

Locked in darkness that surrounded me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories. — Maria V. Snyder

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. — Dean Koontz

Referring, for example, to the principle of fairness, out of which our whole concept of equity and justice is developed. Little children seem to have an innate — Stephen R. Covey

The money doesn't interest me. I'm not enjoying MotoGP, and I'm retiring. — Casey Stoner

You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably have more money to throw around, and they suborn former U.S. intelligence officials, former ambassadors, former generals to support them from within by lobbying the Congress and other American institutions. — Michael Scheuer