Ballantyne Elementary Quotes

#1. Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

Thomas Brooks

#2. What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Peter Singer

#3. Educate the Russian or the American or the Englishman or the Irishman or Frenchman or any real northern European except German, and you get the Anarchist, that is to say the man who dreams of order without organisation - of something beyond organisation ...

H.G.Wells

#4. Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#5. We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.

Carl Sagan

#6. I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

Demi Lovato

#7. You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.

Zoey Deutch

#8. The life of a woman is worth half of that of a man [in Iran]. If a terrorist attacks me and my brother on the street and we are both injured the same, the compensation he receives is twice as much as the compensation that I would receive.

Shirin Ebadi

#9. When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Louis Kronenberger

#11. If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives a plough to know more of the scriptures than you do.

William Tyndale

#12. We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors ... all black and brown people.

Immortal Technique

#13. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

#14. If you have no one to fight for, that doesn't mean you have no one to fight for you

Grace Johnson

#15. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Abraham Lincoln