Graduation Elementary Quotes

#1. Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

Amartya Sen

#2. Ignorant mind is a tightly closed door! To open it, you must knock the door repeatedly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better

Sangu Mandanna

#4. Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

Joni Mitchell

#5. I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare.

Peter T. King

#6. It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time; conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

W. H. Auden

#7. From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

Ferdinand Buisson

#8. If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

Carl Sagan

#9. Has he made an avowal of his love?'
'No,' Anna said. 'He doesn't need to. I know it, just the same.

Eleanor Catton

#10. The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

Brian Skerry

#11. One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. In the girl's room on the chest of drawers stood the glass vase with the withered flowers, the water had evaporated, it was there that her blind hands directed themselves, her fingers brushed against the dead petals, how fragile life is when it is abandoned.

Jose Saramago

#13. This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

{The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin, though he discussed Spencer's 'excellent expression' in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace (Jul 1866).}

Herbert Spencer

#14. Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her

Liane Moriarty

#15. One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

B. Alan Wallace