Yustaf Quotes & Sayings

LIFE'S A BALANCE OF what's best to eliminate or smart to embrace, — Susan Jean Ricci

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. — Rem Koolhaas

Numbness is not happiness. — Marty Rubin

The overemphasis on standardized tests forces teachers to teach the same restricted, unintuitive curriculum. Longtime educator Brent Evans has said that today's schools are organized as assembly lines, "(running at a set speed) and with each worker (teacher) at designated places (way levels) on the assembly line performing predetermined actions on products (students) considered to be somewhat generic (one-size-fits-all) and passive (waiting to be filled or formed to the desired shape). — Brent Evans

It is the mystery of the unknown
That fascinates us; we are children still
Wayward and wistful; with one hand we cling
To the familiar things we call our own,
And with the other, resolute of will,
Grope in the dark for what the day will bring — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers. — Vincent De Paul

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I. — Randy Newman

I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse — Holly Black

And I realized - I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right. — Sarah J. Maas

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish. — Brian Lamb

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared. — Danny Lyon

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church. — Stacey D'Erasmo

How come only curmudgeonly old men are considered endearing, discerning, and honorable? My own Shamanic journeying on this matter has shown me that at midlife women are invited beyond the nurturing Moon-Earth embrace into the vastness of the Milky Way, where we have light, darkness, stars, moons and meteorites at our creative, reflective, and destructive disposal. — Mary Trainor-Brigham

The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows. — Orrin Woodward