Stupefyin Quotes & Sayings

The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged. — David Elkind

You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time. — Pierre Omidyar

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. — Ezra Stiles

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school. — John Leguizamo

It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness. — Brad Stine

This world was huge. There must be another place in it for the people of Ember. — Jeanne DuPrau

I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning. — Daniel D. Mich

A man with God is always in the majority. — John Knox

In that moment Archie realised that Gretchen had never told him anything, never let him see anything that she didn't want him to know. She had always been in control. She had always been one move ahead. — Chelsea Cain

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble. — Nachman Of Breslov

Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment. — Terry Goodkind

For if after the have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they had known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned unto his own vomit again: and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. 2 Peter 2:20-22 KJV — Robert M. Price

Never a bad day, only bad moments. — Jon Gordon