Louise Bennett Coverley Quotes

#1. Consistency and an established worldview were excess baggage in the intellectual mobile warfare that flared up in the mass media's tiny time segments, and it was his great advantage to be free of such things.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy my real life, but I feel about it much the way I do about New York City, my chosen and adored home: I'm always happy to leave, and I'm always happy to come back.

Jennifer Egan

#3. According to a 2007 assessment by Salary, the domestic labor of a woman who stays home to care for her children is worth an impressive $138,095 a year. (That's a three-percent raise from the $134,121 "earned" the year before.) By the way, that salary is compensation for a 91.6-hour work week,

Melissa Stanton

#4. The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

Laozi

#5. Brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.

Mira Grant

#6. I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Brian Andreas

#7. Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing them in relation to student test scores.

Diane Ravitch

#8. The spirit of God dwells in you. Recognize the great power and might of your divine-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. People meant to be together will always take detours through pain, misunderstanding and pride, but some how they always drift back to the one thing that makes them feel alive.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#11. I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.

Bun E. Carlos

#12. For me, music begins where words end.

Jean Sibelius

#13. News is just news until it happens to you. Then it's tragedy.

J. Lincoln Fenn

#14. My concern as a citizen and as a money manager is, Oh my God, at what point does a 'whoa' moment happen to these people who own $30 trillion fixed income instruments?

Paul Singer