Stenersen As Quotes & Sayings

A man must be very inert to have no character at all. — Jean De La Bruyere

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back? — Ice Cube

During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a stand-alone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut's tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. (The day before, we'd visited the same spot in 1334 BC and had seen Tutankhamen's empire in all its glory.) — Ernest Cline

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence. — Dave Heineman

God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars. — Joseph J. Ellis

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is. — Amanda Hearst

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. — Peggy McIntosh

For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to place, often at considerable expense and inconvenience; we dust and polish their surfaces and reprimand children for playing too roughly in their vicinity - all the while, allowing memories to invest them with greater and greater importance. — Amor Towles

This is the right time, and this is the right thing. — Thomas Moore

And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and innovation, and the latter in elegance and refinement. — Samuel Johnson