Stormsharks Quotes & Sayings

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. — Quintilian

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. — Roger Ascham

Now' is the watchword of the wise. — Charles Spurgeon

[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way. — John Mandeville

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil. — Socrates

Those are the Big Three: clipboards, orange cones, elf suits. People don't question — Tim Dorsey

She was so endearing, so indomitable, that Gabriel was wrenched with a feeling he'd never known before, as if all the extremes of joy and despair had been compressed into some new emotion that threatened to crack the walls of his heart. — Lisa Kleypas

Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves. — Kiran Nagarkar

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers
shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus? — William Shakespeare

This is not to say that the deepest concerns of the faithful, whether moderate or extreme, are trivial or misguided. There is no denying that most of us have emotional and spiritual needs that are now addressed - however obliquely and at a terrible price - by mainstream religion. And these are needs that a mere understanding of our world, scientific or otherwise, will never fulfill. There is clearly a sacred dimension to our existence, and coming to terms with it could well be the highest purpose of human life. But we will find that it requires no faith in untestable propositions - Jesus was born of a virgin; the Koran is the word of God - for us to do this. — Sam Harris

Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks? — Maria Dahvana Headley

We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way? — Kim Deal

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it. — Claude Monet

(Wil Wheaton) was so fun to have on the set, and he was such a good guy, just in general. He seemed to be completely okay with the fact that his entire name became a mantra of vengeful hate. That didn't seem to bother him. — Jim Parsons

No one gets a break from their reality. — Mathew St. Patrick

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health. — Jean Houston