Portables Unlimited Quotes & Sayings

As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American. — Douglas Adams

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road. — Linda Sue Park

Burn them all, little dragon. — Rhiannon Thomas

Let us not turn schools into dumps when we go out and vote on Monday. — Ramon Paje

The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law11 alone and not by nature. — Aristotle.

Socrates, the dialectical hero of the Platonic drama, reminds us of the kindred nature of the Euripidean hero who must defend his actions with arguments and counterarguments and in the process often risks the loss of our tragic pity; for who could mistake the optimistic element in the nature of the dialectic, which celebrates a triumph with every conclusion and can breathe only in cool clarity and consciousness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was younger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a mentor to me and gave me great advice. The best was to 'work 100 percent, but enjoy every moment along the way.' Sometimes you get so in the zone, you forget to enjoy your passions. I love running - but I also love the movies, relaxing on the beach, shopping and spending time with my friends. Enjoying my life helps me enjoy my running. — Allyson Felix

In most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence." He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if they don't start performing worse. Their presence "disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved. — Laurence J. Peter

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts. — Joseph Haydn

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration. — Bernie Sanders

I'm always creative. — Lil' Wayne

Maybe the key for me to move forward wasn't to eliminate everything I was feeling; maybe all I needed to do was focus on the feeling that made all others seem small. — Kiera Cass

Ignorance nor enlighten is pointless drama — Usha Cosmico