Mccorkell Associates Quotes

#1. We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

Saint Basil

#2. Students frequently misbehave because they (1) want and need attention from adults and peers, (2) are trying to avoid a difficult or unpleasant task (too difficult, too easy, too boring), or (3) for some older students, revenge.

Barbara D. Bateman

#3. If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

Dorothy Allison

#4. It's a strange principle but it's true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give.

Norman Vincent Peale

#5. The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away.

Terry Pratchett

#6. When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

Paul Weller

#7. It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard ... Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

Charles De Lint

#8. You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me.

Rachel Caine

#9. You should always be your greatest motivator. Never leave that power in someone else's hands. Once you learn to love the person you are, there are no limits to the person you can become.

Carlos Wallace

#10. As long as there is rape ... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

Andrea Dworkin

#11. A miser is merely a pauper with fewer friends.

Anthony Ryan

#12. Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement

Robin Hobb

#13. Your shrewdest enemies will try to befriend you.

Matshona Dhliwayo