Uoft Quotes & Sayings

To be a Jew is a destiny. — Vicki Baum

Speech is how we convey our thoughts. Literature is how we convey our civilization." Captain Hank Bracker — Hank Bracker

Kiddo, I rarely get compliments. So I just decide to compliment myself instead. You should try it sometime. — Karina Halle

I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink at all. — Craig Roberts

We must endure to the end; ... We must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom. — Joseph Fielding Smith

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away. — Bill Gates

It's written that learning is more precious than rubies, more lasting than gold. Rubies may be lost and gold stolen, but that which you learn is yours forever. — Erica Silverman

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion. — Honore De Balzac

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse. — Norman Vincent Peale

When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father calls, he comes not, the onely way is this: the father steps aside behind a bush, and then the child runs and cries, and if he gets his father againe, he forsakes all his trifles, and walkes on more faster and more cheerefully with his father than ever. — Thomas Hooker

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience. — Marilyn Ferguson

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them. — Sandra Cisneros

You might one day be able to send the experience of dancing the tango, bungee jumping, or skydiving to the people on your e-mail list. Not just physical activity, but emotions and feelings as well might be sent via brain-to-brain communication. — Michio Kaku

Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival. — Eraldo Banovac

People love to hear good news about their bad habits. — John A. McDougall