Marcel Mauss The Gift Quotes

#1. They left a trail of hopscotch behind them, Mellie always thinking of ways to make it harder. They'd be jumping along in the dust, barefoot, with licorice drops in their mouths, feeling as though they had run off with everything in that town that was worth having.

Marilynne Robinson

#2. In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#3. Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

Goodluck Jonathan

#4. You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair ...

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

Glenway Wescott

#6. Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.

John Dryden

#7. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.

Ken Blanchard

#9. But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#10. A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#11. The type of librarians who are thriving most consistently in the digital era are those who have found a way to operate as a node in a network of libraries and librarians. They are agents of change, actively creating the future instead of constantly reacting to it -

John Palfrey

#12. Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

Karl Barth

#14. Where do you want to go?
Back to violinist. I want to hear songs about suicide.

Bethany Griffin

#15. But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn't dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I'd managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I'd been in years.

Susanna Kaysen