Undereducating Quotes & Sayings

Churchill: The strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race.
Mr. Seymour Cocks (Labor Party): "If that had happened we should have lost the 1939 -45 war".
Churchill: No, it would have prevented that war.
[Speech in the House of Commons, May 11,1953] — Winston S. Churchill

Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it. — Charles Bukowski

Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us. — Erica Jong

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. — James Russell Lowell

Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself. — Ally Carter

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that? — Bob Kerrey

I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me. — Meredith Brooks

Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet. — Robert Adams

The throne we honour is the people's choice. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break. — Kara Walker

I dote on his very absence. — William Shakespeare

Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial. — Richard Montanari

My moral standing is lying down. — Trent Reznor

The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love. — Mihai Eminescu

The rage building up, generation after generation, among what has become a permanent underclass in many parts of the world cannot continue. We are desperately undereducating our children. In the United States, we are turning prison-building into the single largest urban industry. These are like toxic chemical factors any one of which could cause a raging fire. God help us if they begin to interact. — Marianne Williamson