Tragjedia Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed, — Henry David Thoreau

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. — Sheldon Whitehouse

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. — Thomas Carlyle

There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm ... to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove. — Max Weinberg

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students. — Alfie Kohn

The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation. — Jane Roberts

There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child. — Mallory Ortberg