Peverley Honored Quotes

#1. People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

Iain Banks

#2. It's up to you, not about you

Sonya Withrow

#3. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Eric S. Raymond

#4. I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.

Jessa Gamble

#5. The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

William Cullen Bryant

#6. So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

Ruben Blades

#7. Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Fulton J. Sheen

#8. Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#9. The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

Leland Stanford

#10. (Photo by Edwin Bonde, June 24, 1945, courtesy Alan Bonde)

Flint Whitlock

#11. Justice is a blindfolded woman.

Shirley Hufstedler

#12. Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring?

Debasish Mridha

#13. The present is the key to the past

Charles Lyell

#14. In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

Gary Miller

#15. No matter what, just let them write every day,even if you're not sure what to teach, just let them write. They'll do fine." -Lisa Cleaveland's words for her long-term substitute teacher.

Lisa Cleaveland