Unlearn Book Quotes & Sayings

Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being - not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement - not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason. — Ayn Rand

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns. — Rick Danko

I'm your father. That's the great privilege of parenthood; we can comment on whatever we want. — Ilona Andrews

With the increasing speed of business in today's economy, transparency isn't just desirable - it's essential. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

In a song you can shine a light on a topic and with your voice at a concert you can shine a light on an actual issue or a person, you can acknowledge whatever you like with music and people will listen. — Jason Mraz

They were grainy things, soot and chalk. They could have been anybody. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it. — George Whitefield

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want. — Jennifer Senior

'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives. — Marvin Ammori

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims? — John O. Brennan

Talent helps mankind leap years.
Brilliance helps mankind leap decades.
Genius helps mankind leap centuries. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You should deal sternly and despotically with your memory, so that it does not unlearn obedience; if, for example, you cannot call something to mind, a line of poetry or a word perhaps, you should not go and look it up in a book, but periodically plague your memory with it for weeks on end until your memory has done its duty. For the longer you have had to rack your brains for something the more firmly will it stay once you have got it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die. — Janette Turner Hospital

If a person reads a good book - they become permanently changed. They can't even help it. They can't unlearn what they've learned. It will always be with them. — Loretta Lost

A leader without followers is just a person walking around. — Linda Galindo

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. — Mike Figgis

Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution. — Cat Stevens