Tradies Club Quotes & Sayings

The next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard? — Eleanor Roosevelt

Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if you quit pursuing this thing you want to do? And what does your best self advise? What you hear may change your life. — Steve Goodier

The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library. — Alison Gopnik

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. — Mark Batterson

It was as if he had known her for a long, long time and before he knew her, he knew nothing because he felt he had not existed then, life had been absent in his breaths. — Faraaz Kazi

Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy. — Everett Reimer

Manuscripts - at least for Muslims who understand the subject - are to be read as books whose contents are to be known and understood, for that is why they were written, and not to be regarded as enigmatic specimens for critical textual and philological exercises. To them what is in the manuscripts is more important than what is on them, and so they say: Al-'ilmu fi'l-sudur la fi'l-sutur. — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating. — Lykke Li

I should never go with rumors because they're often not correct. — Jason Statham