Znoua Quotes & Sayings

Dweck encourages parents and teachers to praise children for their effort, rather than their intelligence, talent, or looks. — Megan McArdle

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them. — John Travolta

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.' — James Patterson

I know this is asking a lot, but try to stop humiliating yourselves. — S.J. Kincaid

Life is a challenge, and I'm staying in the game to win. — Robert M. Hensel

If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me. — Lionel Shriver

Let's go inside, she said. Lumikki nodded. — Salla Simukka

But Jesus accepts what we give, blesses it, breaks it open, and magnifies it. Often in ways that we don't see or cannot see. Or will not be able to see in this lifetime. Who knows what a kind word does? Who knows what a single act of charity will do? Sometimes the smallest word or gesture can change a life. — James Martin

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive. — Martin Luther King Jr.

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both — F Scott Fitzgerald

But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun. — Sophie Turner