Romanticising Def Quotes & Sayings

In a world where we are accustomed to rivalries over possession, authority, and borders, and people clashing over the issue, "Ours," or "Mine, not yours," it is rather strange to find two people debating whose the kingdom is not, and asserting: "Yours, not mine. — R.K. Narayan

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down. — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

I would love for models to be protected by a guild. — Tyra Banks

Buy!" "SELL!" "Trade!" "BARTER!" "YOU'RE MUCH BIGGER, BUT WE ARE SMARTER! — John Green

Even political systems follow a form of rational tinkering, when people are rational hence take the better option: the Romans got their political system by tinkering, not by "reason." Polybius in his Histories compares the Greek legislator Lycurgus, who constructed his political system while "untaught by adversity," to the more experiential Romans, who, a few centuries later, "have not reached it by any process of reasoning [emphasis mine], but by the discipline of many struggles and troubles, and always choosing the best by the light of the experience gained in disaster. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting — Charles Bukowski

Napoleon is great because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserved all that was good in it - equality of citizenship and freedom of speech and of the press - and only for that reason did he obtain power. — Leo Tolstoy

Even if you're starting from scratch and buying a new wardrobe, preppy clothes are very fairly priced compared to high fashion. They're very easy to absorb into your wardrobe. You probably already have stuff you can wear and there's a safety factor. You're dressed for success, in a way, if you look like you grew up with success. — Lisa Birnbach

I love you so much ... I don't want to live a single moment without you at my side. — Lara Adrian

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning. — Seneca The Younger

Extraordinary versions of people only exist when engagement is present. — Kevin E. Phillips

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another. — Bob Corker

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker. — Spike Jonze