Walkington School Quotes & Sayings

Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all. All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate. So, we're influenced. So there can't be free choices. — Jacque Fresco

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do. — Karl Rove

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty. — Samuel Johnson

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain ... Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. — Carlos Castaneda

Of course,' Spider said. 'I'd bring you Popsicles and cheesy celebrity magazines. — Heidi R. Kling

Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years. — Harper Lee

This problem, once solved, will be simple. — Thomas A. Edison

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A smile played around the corners of his mouth. He looked up at me. Bad dog. — Rachel Hawkins

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world. — Tariq Ramadan

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out. — Daniel H. Wilson

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it. — Jack Kevorkian

An unexpected side effect of having enhanced memory; smart mice are sometimes paralyzed by fear. — Anonymous

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose. — Ani DiFranco

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well. — Leo Kottke