Esos Paideia Quotes

#1. I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there ... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#2. All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.

Arnold Beichman

#3. Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.

Masha Gessen

#4. Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

John Irving

#5. But as all waves must, it had broken, and anyway, he'd always been scared of heights.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#6. What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.

Marianne Williamson

#7. The drenched backyard full of runoff, and tiny, slimy, uncertain yard critters who had expected to remain buried in months of hard mud, peeking their heads out into the balmy New Year's air, asking, Wait, what?

Nina Riggs

#8. I used to like studying a lot.

Juan Manuel Marquez

#9. Y'all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.

Maya Angelou