Kalinangang Quotes

#1. Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

Laozi

#2. I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

Sarah McLachlan

#3. To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

John Marshall

#4. But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up.

Rebecca Scherm

#5. The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Gaston Caperton

#6. Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn't agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

Richard Bach

#7. General Polk, who was dignified and corpulent, walked back slowly, not wishing to appear too hurried or cautious in the presence of the men, and was struck across the breast by an unexploded shell, which killed him instantly.

William T. Sherman

#8. I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

Laura Z. Hobson

#9. truth cannot "be reduced to aphorism or formulas. It is something alive and unpronounceable. Story creates an atmosphere in which [truth] becomes discernible as a pattern."3

Parker J. Palmer

#10. How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Winston Churchill

#11. Mashed potato is the gentile's chicken soup. It's nature's tranquilizer. I take it instead of valium.

Andrew Payne

#12. I let the barren-void melody of his voice lilt its way through the inattentive chambers of my brain.

John Darnielle

#13. You aren't interrupting my life; you're just making it hard.

Mikaela Bender