Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Christian

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Dave Attell

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

Alice Hoffman

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Andy Partridge

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

Cillian Murphy

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

Alfie Allen

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Alfie Kohn

In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

Alfie Kohn

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

Alfie Kohn

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Albert Schweitzer

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Walter Raleigh

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Yann Martel

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Willie Nelson

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

William Peter Blatty

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

William Petty

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

Terry Pratchett

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.