I say to this generation: “We must encourage these kids.” Tell them they are wonderful and capable. Be their cheerleader.
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOSNothing leads to good that is not natural.
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I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
ULYSSES S. GRANT -
I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN -
Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
BEN OKRI -
My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties…welcome to my world.
BILL ENGVALL -
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
BILLY WEST -
I’m not sure if this makes sense but the most we’ve ever loved was in times we were hurt.
SUMIRAN THAPA -
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I’ve never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.
LEONARD NIMOY -
I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
ADAM GOPNIK -
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUS -
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
ROBERT BURNS -
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. EDWARDS DEMING -
An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.
BEN SHAHN -
I am given something that I can bear and you are given something that YOU can bear. The tests won’t be the same for you and me.
BILAL PHILIPS -
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE