Sidwell School Quotes & Sayings

To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers. — Jostein Gaarder

Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office. — Salman Rushdie

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion. — Abraham Lincoln

Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it. — Bill Nye

You are capable of good deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us. — Scott Stapp

Grey is... life that nobody wants but the bond that everyone craves. — Dee Juusan

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was temptation wrapped in seduction, a Southern beauty with a viper's tongue, a
rapier wit and a bone-deep grit that rivaled his own. Yes, she'd basically blown his mind with her
brilliant concept of time — Gena Showalter

One Corinthians 15, one of Paul's longest sustained discussions and the climax of the whole letter, is about the creator God remaking the creation - not abandoning it, as Platonists of all sorts, including the gnostics, would have wanted. — N. T. Wright

The whole notion of the nursing home was something dreamed up by people like my mother; American women with sunglasses, always searching for their tanning lotion or cigarette lighters. — David Sedaris

Everyone's perception is different; we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see. — Fisher Amelie

Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother — Ann Brashares

My garden is a forest ledge
Which older forest s bound;
The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
Then plunge to depths profound! — Ralph Waldo Emerson