Ungoverned Afghanistan Quotes & Sayings

Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans. — Hannah Arendt

Academic training actively deprives you of the qualities that make for good teaching. A good teacher speaks plainly, in vivid, accessible language, because she is addressing what amounts to a general audience. But the kind of jargon academics learn to use is designed to repel the uninitiated. A good teacher ranges widely, making connections among subjects as well as from learning to life. But academics are constrained to specialize, and increasingly, to hyperspecialize, looking neither left nor right as they plow their little corner of the field. — William Deresiewicz

I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny. — Kristen Stewart

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy. — Alison Moyet

Hope for the best," I said. "Prepare for the worst. — Rose Christo

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. — Anacharsis

In my work on injuries, I'm very interested in the lag time between when a person first suspects that something is too intense or painful for them in practice, and when they actually stop or alter practice. In between those two points comes a litany of things they are told and learn to tell themselves - "pain is an opening", "practice requires commitment" etc. - about the necessity of continuing. It's also in this period that repetitive strain can evolve into chronic injury. — Anonymous

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless ... I'm not going to have a happy ending. — Marya Hornbacher