Surefootedly Quotes & Sayings

Students take ownership of their education when they learn from one another — Susan Cain

A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you. — P. J. O'Rourke

Unqualified activity, of whatever kind, leads at last to bankruptcy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world. — Marilyn Manson

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. — Jonathan Swift

They dumped him in the orphanage as dust and dirt swirled in fierce desert winds howling like jackals. It was a day when hawks flew against the wind without making headway, hovering over him, preparing for the kill. As if he were their helpless prey. And that was how he felt. Helpless. — I.J. Sarfeh

It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails; I was heads. — Gabrielle Zevin

Adam felt the familiar pang. Not jealousy, just wanting. One day, he'd have enough money to have a place like this. A place that looked on the outside like Adam looked on the inside. — Maggie Stiefvater

All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other's views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct. — John Stuart Mill

With anything that would make things better, believe as much as you can - then believe a little more. — Daniel Taylor

While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension. — Gabor Mate

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. — H.L. Mencken

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. — Kofi Annan

When you're cool for twenty,
you get paid for twenty-one. — Miguel Pinero

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. — Salvador Dali