Wivine Nlandu Quotes & Sayings

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language. — George Carlin

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth. — David Rosenfelt

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE.
WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US THAN WHAT HAPPENS TO US.
HAPPINESS DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOU BUT ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF YOU. — Marvin J. Ashton

So eager to die are you? (Zakar)
Not particularly, but I'd rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It was the first breath of the new moon, but the whole of it was visible, a perfect ball of violet and indigo cupped in a sickle of light, luminous among the stars. — Diana Gabaldon

A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white. — Heinrich Heine

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people — Timothy Keller

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is. — Niall Ferguson

A man who lives a lie will soon enough be consumed by it, — R.A. Salvatore

One problem with test-based accountability, as currently defined and used, is that it removes all responsibility from students and their families for the students' academic performance. NCLB neglected to acknowledge that students share in the responsibility for their academic performance and that they are merely passive recipients of their teachers' influence. — Diane Ravitch

We have seen in this book numerous ambiguous texts that can be interpreted in two different ways: as an assertion that is true but relatively banal, or as one that is radical but manifestly false. And we cannot help thinking that, in many cases, these ambiguities are deliberate. Indeed, they offer a great advantage in intellectual battles: the radical interpretation can serve to attract relatively inexperienced listeners or readers; and if the absurdity of this version is exposed, the author can always defend himself by claiming to have been misunderstood, and retreat to the innocuous interpretation. — Alan Sokal