School Veranda Quotes & Sayings

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison. — Gaston Bachelard

TV news is not very instructive. — Gore Vidal

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather. — Michael Gartner

Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well. — Tim Wise

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle? — Julian Fellowes

I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted. — A. J. Foyt

Lenin held that religion was a simply product of social oppression and economic exploitation. 'The social oppression of toiling masses, their apparent complete helplessness before the blind forces of capitalism ... that is the deepest contemporary root of religion'. Theoretically it followed from this that the elimination of social and economic evils should lead to the disappearance of religious belief. In practice, however, the party has never shown any confidence that this would happen: it has not felt able to concede the churches toleration, and let them decline of their own accord. On the contrary, from the beginning it has aimed at the destruction of the churches and the forcible secularization of believers. With the exemption of the years 1941-53, that has remained the case ever since. — Geoffrey Hosking

With Quinn, safety wasn't even an illusion. It was an impossibility — Alyssa Day

There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight. — Peter Thiel

Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout. — Romano Guardini

I'd been living on dreams so long it was hard to know if any one of the fifteen things happening inside my head was real. — Brenna Yovanoff

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine. — Tallulah Bankhead

In Munich, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a rare European NATO leader who has a clear picture of events, told Merkel that the choice was "surrender or arm Ukraine" - to no effect. — Anonymous

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. — John Ruskin

Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character. — Alfred Armand Montapert