Vokoun Family Quotes & Sayings

We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills. — Martin Seligman

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died. — Luke Scott

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. — Simone De Beauvoir

Why is the 'average man' so far below average? — Bruce Barnbaum

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa. — Liya Kebede

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. — Alan Moore

All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it — James Russell Lowell

One of the things I can't stand about Christians is their admiration of meekness. Imagine elevating meekness into a virtue! Meekness! Can you imagine a heaven filled only with the meek? What a dreadful idea. The food would get cold while everyone passed the dishes to everyone else. Meekness is no good, Derfel. Anger and selfishness, those are the qualities that make the world march. — Bernard Cornwell