Testmem5 Quotes & Sayings

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. — Charlotte Bronte

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later. — Jill McCorkle

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world. — Maria Montessori

Failure is just another opportunity to start over. — Yogi Berra

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks. — Stephen Baxter

Both nuns and mothers worship images,
But those the candles light are not as those
That animate a mother's reveries,
But keep a marble or a bronze repose. — William Butler Yeats

You know Schmeckle, people are like feet. Most everyone has a pair and yet feet are so unique. So, we must treat all people with respect and accept their unique way. — Ellen Newhouse

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. — G.I. Gurdjieff

So what's your alternative? people say, as if that's logic. We don't have to have an alternative, that's not how critique works. We may do, and if we do, you're welcome, but if we don't that no more invalidates our hate for this, for what is, than does that of a serf for her lord, her flail-backed insistence that this must end, whether or not she accompanies it with a blueprint for free wage labor. — China Mieville

She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you.
Harriet, on what Ole Golly says — Louise Fitzhugh

Our lives should be so crystal clear that no one could doubt our words. — Sunday Adelaja

If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me. — Andrew Solomon