Schemata Example Quotes & Sayings

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying. — Tamsin Egerton

Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth. — Felix Frankfurter

The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. — Douglas Rushkoff

When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole. — Loren Acton

And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest hopes, protector of one's deepest privacies. It was half insane with its noise, violence, and decay, but it gave one the tender security of fulfillment. On winter afternoons, from my office, there were sunsets across Manhattan when the smog itself shimmered and glowed ... Despite its difficulties, which become more obvious all the time, one was constantly put to the test by this city, which finally came down to its people; no other place in America had quite such people and they would not allow you to go stale; in the end they were its triumph and its reward. — Willie Morris

When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. — Guy Kawasaki

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. — Saint Augustine

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. — Jonathan Franzen

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it. — Alison Mosshart

I dislike poor teachers. They are criminals to me. I've seen so much cruelty toward children. I've seen so many children not given the opportunity to live up to their potential as human beings. — Pat Conroy

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning. — John Steinbeck

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting — Heraclitus

He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life. — Philippa Gregory

We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world. — Pat Robertson