Ublearns Quotes & Sayings

Someone special once told me to dare to dream. For without dreams, we have nothing to look forward to. I'm starting to believe her. — S.L. Scott

Mr. Denzi can teach us all something about accumulating wealth. Begin earning and investing early in your adult life. That will enable you to outpace the wealth accumulation levels of even the so-called gifted kids from your high school class. Remember, wealth is blind. — Thomas J. Stanley

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace. — Christina Aguilera

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to. — Josh Lanyon

One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again. — Jonathan Raban

Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance. — Peter McWilliams

Girl, you have a knack for drawing trouble, Billy says, clapping an affectionate hand on my shoulder. — Cynthia Hand

The voice of the soul and of the imagination is the only voice that makes the soul and the imagination resonate thoroughly and happily; and had you spent a bit of the time you have killed to please others and had you made that bit come alive, had you nourished it by reading and reflecting at your hearth during winter and in your park during summer, you would be nurturing the rich memory of deeper and fuller hours. Have the courage to take up the rake and the pickax. Someday you will delight in smelling a sweet fragrance drifting up from your memory as if from a gardener's brimming wheelbarrow. — Marcel Proust

Lederman is also a charismatic personality, famous among his colleagues for his humor and storytelling ability. One of his favorite anecdotes relates the time when, as a graduate student, he arranged to bump into Albert Einstein while walking the grounds at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The great man listened patiently as the eager youngster explained the particle-physics research he was doing at Columbia, and then said with a smile, That is not interesting. — Sean Carroll

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy. — David Levithan

Skepticism is history's bedfellow. — Edgar Saltus

The smaller trips are useful in between the big trips: they help me gain new skills and experiences, they solve a perpetual case of cabin fever, and they are accommodating to an ambitious public speaking schedule and to some private guiding. — Andrew Skurka

My journey has begun
and the direction is upwards.
I am shooting for the stars
and will come back with a shine
like never before.
I am blessed beyond measure. — Gerard Johnson

Obsessing over a boy is like throwing precious time into the garbage, and all I have to show for it is chewed-off fingernails, self-doubt, and emotional distress. — Katie Kacvinsky