Thornley Campus Quotes & Sayings

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good. — Jane Fonda

Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency. — C.D. Darlington

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may even be deemed self-indulgent. — Wole Soyinka

Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience ... of admitting that "I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth." — Karl Popper

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, "Oh well, sin doesn't matter much"? — Oswald Chambers

A secure individual ... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility. — Harry Browne

Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable — Karin Slaughter

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find. — Andre Holland

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. — Christopher Hitchens

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. — Marcus Garvey

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other. — Ram Dass

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible. — E. O. Wilson

And isn't that strange, she thought, the way one city can swirl inside another; the way you can be in one country yet carry another country in your skin; the way a place is changed by whoever comes to it, the way silt invades the body of a river. — Carolina De Robertis

If you wanted to buy anything from Ligor, you'd lower a basket from your floor and then shout — Orhan Pamuk