Marie Clay Quotes

#1. Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Bill Gates

#2. Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting ...

Mary MacLane

#4. Teaching ... can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

Marie Clay

#5. (Alexander Pope: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.")

Paul Kalanithi

#6. As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the ... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.

Marie Clay

#7. Characters in a novel or a play who act all the way through exactly as one expects them to ... This consistency of theirs, which is held up to our admiration, is on the contrary the very thing which makes us recognise that they are artificially composed.

Andre Gide

#8. If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

Marie Clay

#9. What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.

Franz Kafka

#10. Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee.

Anonymous

#11. My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

Walter Schloss

#12. Alexander never did what he said, Cesare never said what he did.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#13. Russia and Ukraine are candidates for the entry to the WTO and their dispute would be easy to understand and tackle if they are both members of this organization.

Pascal Lamy

#14. I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

Tiger Woods

#15. Juliana imagined her funeral: a formless crowd of people in a trivial location, chatting amongst themselves, saying things like, "Oh thank God. Finally.

Gabby Bess

#16. I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#17. Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Jean De La Fontaine

#18. If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on.

Marie Corelli