Serwas Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire. — Emily Mortimer

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle. — G.K. Chesterton

of oppressive state power. Gramsci's theory of hegemony as a form of cultural pedagogy is also invaluable as an element of critical educational thought. By emphasizing the pedagogical force of culture, Gramsci expands the sphere of the political by pointing to those diverse spaces and spheres in which cultural practices are deployed, lived, and mobilized in the service of knowledge, power and authority. For Gramsci, learning and politics were inextricably related and took place not merely in schools but in a vast array of public sites. — Henry A. Giroux

I guess I'm one of those girls who can be too honest about things for my own good, but I expect it back. I expect people to be honest and blunt with me, too. — Vanessa Hudgens

The distance between us feels too close, too far, too close. — Stephanie Perkins

What other people think is more important than what we feel. — Paulo Coelho

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth. — William Hazlitt

The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things. — Dan Simmons

You gotta look out for number one, but don't step in number two! — Rodney Dangerfield

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry. — Mary Heaton Vorse

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool. — Niecy Nash

bit: that there was a possibility of a conspiracy aimed at Michaela Bowden. — John Sandford

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter. — Stephen Graham Jones