Politicians are good listeners. Because if they’re not, they aren’t politicians for very long.
ANDREW CUOMOThe most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind….
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
BYRON KATIE -
Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don’t fall asleep.
BEN KATCHOR -
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE -
There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH -
There’s a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
LEE IACOCCA -
There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
AL FRANKEN -
Don’t forget to erase every trace of me from your skin. You wouldn’t want the truth to show.
TMC -
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
You may call me Bray Wyatt. But I have a thousand faces and a million names. Seducer, accuser, destroyer.
BRAY WYATT -
I have a Russian heart.
MARIA SHARAPOVA -
I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI -
I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
ERIC CLAPTON -
You may feel depressed, but it can’t be so depressing that you can’t move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
AARON COPLAND -
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
LORD ACTON -
In his arms, I was a long-lost child, Who finally made it home.
NOOR BAZZI







