The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Edith Hamilton
Related You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Let us find someone who will never break our heart, who will always be there for us, who will make u... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Who among us does not have flaws?
Who does not bear scars?
Each of our journeys unique.
Our adversit... JILL ANZINGER Leon is connected to our community in ways that very few elected officials are. He will leave a sens... WILLIAM JONES This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ... LESLEY LIVINGSTON You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of ... HO CHI MINH Show us Thy ways oh Lord; teach us Thy ways to walk faithfully; teach us, O Lord, how to walk; lead ... WILLIAM PENNINGTON Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundi... PASCAL MERCIER He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the sam... LUDWIG VON MISES What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN Companies made money and were beholden to stockholders; it was understandable if they tried to “co... ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our... JOHN DENVER GRACE is a word we can keep in our minds when we walk, dance, swim, talk, sing, do anything at all -... JAY WOODMAN The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t... KATE WILLIAMS We each, in our very small ways multiplied by the millions of us are contributing to the overall pol... LARRY ALTOSE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Our minds elevated us from among the beasts and our minds again will send us into oblivion if wisene... MARIANA FULGER You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. MICHAEL STIPE Sometimes, all we need is just one person who believes in us and who will never give up on us. Someo... JOCELYN SORIANO Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experienc... JOHN DENVER I have faith that the illusions we currently hold about who we are will not sustain us. I trust huma... AMY MCTEAR I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w... USHER Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ... AUDRE LORDE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... PHILLIPS BROOKS Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight. MISSIONARIES WHO LOVE THE ARAB WORLD Abiding time is extravagant daily time with Jesus. This extravagant time is the center of abiding. N... MISSIONARIES WHO LOVE THE ARAB WORLD Men and women of God through the centuries have lived out this abiding truth. There are no heroes of... MISSIONARIES WHO LOVE THE ARAB WORLD The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us w... MAX WEBER Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most su... WINONA LADUKE There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action... JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou... JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted... JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu... JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying... JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up. AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Hi... BILLY GRAHAM We are asking the students to join us so that young people will be interested in traditional clothes... KUNTARI SAPTA NIRWANDAR The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between ... EDMUND LEACH None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the ba... PAUL MCCARTNEY Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other’s lives. It’s that way with the guy... ROBERT FULGHUM Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp... BOB MOAWAD Remember, there are people who care for us: there are some who grow food for us, some who cook for u... SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after u... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared t... STEPHEN COLBERT The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... PHILLIPS BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... PHILLIPS BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... PHILLIP BROOKS When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; / Discretion shall p... BIBLE The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way ... VLADIMIR PUTIN Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who ... ANDRZEJ WAJDA We are accused of being blasphemous but we are not interested in people's religious beliefs. We are ... MASSIMO POLIDORO
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