Attallah James Quotes

#1. Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

M. King Hubbert

#2. I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.

Neal Shusterman

#3. I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.

Robert Helpmann

#4. When life becomes hard, you will never like what your life is to be in the next day unless you love yourself for real.

Auliq Ice

#5. I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

C.S. Lewis

#6. The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

Jostein Gaarder

#8. Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.

Henry Giroux

#9. Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins live on in peace and harmony, taking little notice of us and our mistakes.

Count Anton Dance Of The Goblins

#10. Then Zane took Ty into his mouth and sucked gently, and tipped his head back enough to look up at Ty. Ty couldn't take his eyes off him.

Abigail Roux

#11. If you are losing at a game, change the game.

Gregory Benford

#12. The magical proposition of the gospel, once free from the clasps of fairy tale, was very adult to me, very gritty like something from Hemingway or Steinbeck,

Donald Miller

#13. There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers.

Jessie Bernard