Teaching To Transgress Quotes & Sayings

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation. — Sunday Adelaja

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln. — Sam Waterston

All that pent up longing," he says, "all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs. — Justin Torres

It didn't matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his own history. — Ginn Hale

Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say. — Laila Ali

Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.' — Jim Parsons

Well," she said. "I'm frustrated."
"Don't make me angry-kiss you."
"Give me the laundry."
"Tempers rising, faces flushed ... This is how it happens. — Rainbow Rowell

Why," Comrade Yono couldn't stop himself from asking, "do you care so much about those newspapers?" "Because the Russian Revolution would never have succeeded if the Bolsheviks hadn't had their newspaper. — Eka Kurniawan

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation funded a study in which one group of healthy volunteers spent fifteen minutes a day practicing "finger abductions," which are basically like a biceps curl but with one finger. — Shawn Achor

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. — Ty Cobb

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page. — Graham Swift

Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! ... What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments. — Swami Vivekananda

Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are full and satisfied, they cannot study, grow spiritually, and do good works. — H.W. Charles