Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 26
It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
Robin Roberts
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
Bjorn Lomborg
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In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.
Gary Taubes
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
You may get a bland smile from these sages;
But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!
W. S. Gilbert
It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.
Prince William
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
Are children of one mother, even Love.
All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English.
In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.
Laura Bohannan
If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.
Patricia Briggs
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
Ramana Maharshi
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Friedrich Schiller
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
Sophocles
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard
