Stanovich Matthew Quotes & Sayings

swimming the Djel was as feasible as nailing fog to the wall. He — Terry Pratchett

It is sad indeed not to be loved or not have the ability to love, for to love and be loved is sheer happiness. — Grace Foakes

life is long between the desire and the spasm. — T. S. Eliot

You reveal me. Then you heal me Of all the scars and strife. And when my life was spinning downward, You caught me. I'd forgotten how to smile, but You re-taught me. — Christine Feehan

We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia. — Philip K. Dick

The problem with English is this: You usually can't open your mouth and it comes out just like that
first you have to think what you want to say. Then you have to find the words. Then you have to carefully arrange those words in your head. Then you have to say the words quietly to yourself, to make sure you got them okay. And finally, the last step, which is to say the words out loud and have them sound just right.
But then because you have to do all this, when you get to the final step, something strange has happened to you and you speak the way a drunk walks. And, because you are speaking like falling, it's as if you are an idiot, when the truth is that it's the language and the whole process that's messed up. And then the problem with those who speak only English is this: they don't know how to listen; they are busy looking at your falling instead of paying attention to what you are saying. — NoViolet Bulawayo

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science. — Lord Kelvin

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. — Christopher Lasch

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity. — Paulo Freire

I shall be as secret as the grave. — Miguel De Cervantes