Canisius University Quotes

#1. A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain don't have a gift for telling a story.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

Adam Weishaupt

#3. Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy?

William Zinsser

#4. The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Agnes Repplier

#5. Absolute scientific truth was like the speed of light, a value which could be approached but never reached.

Paul McAuley

#6. A guilty conscience never feels secure.

Publilius Syrus

#7. There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

Charlotte Whitton

#8. If there's one thing you should understand better than the humans, it's that females should never be ruled out by virtue of strength. Some of us have ways to equalize the equation.

Dee Tenorio

#9. Our teacher's [Ms. Whitlock] talking. Rambling how she'll give a hundred extra credit points to anyone who can solve the puzzle by the end of class. She's saying other things, too.

Katie McGarry

#10. CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. Excitement on the West Fork

Frank Gee Patchin

#11. The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.

Will Rogers

#12. Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country
no interests staked in public weal
no liabilities in common peril
no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?

Angelina Grimke

#13. Sometimes I wondered if I had made Joan up. Other times I wondered if she would continue to pop in at every crisis of my life to remind me of what I had been, and what I had been through, and carry on her own separate but similar crisis under my nose.

Sylvia Plath

#14. I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

Morgan Freeman

#15. Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Charlie Cook