Professor Sycamore Quotes & Sayings

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering. — Jodi Picoult

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot. — John Steinbeck

It has been said that grief is a kind of madness. I disagree. There is a sanity to grief, in its just proportion of emotion to cause, that madness does not have. I know madness well, but I understood little of grief and I was not always certain which was grief and which was madness. Grief, as it transpires has its own territory. — Kay Redfield Jamison

The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess. — Adolf Hitler

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible. — Margaret Cho

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. — Oscar Wilde

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one - in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone believes himself, all will be united; everyone be himself and all will be as one. — Leo Tolstoy

Why is everyone being all quiet?" the Kid asks. "Are we having a staring contest? If so, you should have told me because I wasn't quite ready yet. — T.J. Klune

Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves. — John Wooden