Worthschools Quotes & Sayings

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. — Ambrose Bierce

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return. — Thomas Piketty

I didn't just show up
for work, as has sometimes been said. I also
showed up to work. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Disagreement is something normal. — Dalai Lama

Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; the sober silence that goes with a solemn animal face; the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul, whence emerge new thoughts; the alive silence of alert perception, ready to say, "This ... this ... "; the musical silence that accompanies absorbed activity; the silence of listening to another speak, catching the drift and helping him be clear; the noisy silence of resentment and self-recrimination, loud and subvocal speech but sullen to say it; baffled silence; the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos. — Paul Goodman

The torchlit garden was redolent with the colors and scents of autumn... gold and copper foliage, thick borders of roses and dahlias, flowering grasses and beds of fresh mulch that made the air pleasantly pungent. — Lisa Kleypas

This Giant had some sort of magic in his legs. — Roald Dahl

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man. — Annie Besant

I have a hard time repeating myself. — Ariel Rechtshaid

Whatever it is, I'm against it. — Groucho Marx

Jesus knew the difference between urgent and important. He understood that all the good things he could do were not necessarily the things he ought to do. — Kevin DeYoung

COWBOYS, just like the word says. — John Wayne

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world ... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment. — Ernst Haas

You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others. — Claudia Rankine