Holdens Loneliness Quotes

#1. Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

Georgi Plekhanov

#2. The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. He found himself playing the love-sick fool vying for a crumb of attention or approval from Genevieve. Anything to make her smile. Make her happy. He'd give her the damn moon if that was what it took.

Maya Banks

#4. People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.

Zach Braff

#5. Flexibility is the key to stability.

John Wooden

#6. Science rejects the indeterminate.

Claude Bernard

#7. No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.

Cal Thomas

#8. Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

Warren Buffett

#10. Loomis waved a hand and a squiggly trail of smoke followed like a magic wand. Loomis had a captivating subtlety and charm and was capable of more tricks than a sage in Pharaoh's court.

Luke Taylor

#11. She said there are evil men in the world, truly evil men. Sometimes we hear of them, but more often they work in absolute darkness.

Stephen King

#12. John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?

Jay Leno

#13. We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible.

Henry Giroux