Turtle North Shore Quotes & Sayings

I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you. — Eoin Colfer

An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races. — G.K. Chesterton

Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We're going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is. — Cornel West

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence. — Piet Mondrian

To my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored. — George Eliot

Jacob." A whisper of the past. — Amanda Steele

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. — Bette Davis

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Willful ignorance or resistance to alleged facts has been a big ingredient in any success I've had. — Rob Delaney

When you're playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it's like a video game. There's so much talent on the floor at once. — Kyrie Irving

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged. — Dennis Lindley

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires. — Michael Grant

Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories. — Paulo Coelho

When you are working well with your
energy, you are also making the best
expression of your personal power ... By
reading your own energy, by becoming
aware of the lens through which you see
your world, you can change your mind and change your life. — Caroline Myss

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case. — Karl Marlantes