Alidina School Quotes

#1. Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the craving for completeness or certainty or comfort, and not to feel compelled to follow where it leads.

Oliver Burkeman

#2. If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945]

George Orwell

#3. One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression.
A Tale of Two Sisters

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#4. To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

James Cook

#5. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Herman Melville

#6. The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me.

Jude Morgan

#7. From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

Rachel Cohn

#8. Intuition is the result of nonconscious pattern recognition,

Shane Snow

#9. Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

Murray Rothbard

#10. If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#11. Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.

Edmund Burke

#12. It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

Bergen Evans

#13. 'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.

Rebecca Black

#14. I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.

Shirley Temple