Quotes About Pop Quizzes

#1. Pop quizzes were killers. Like ambushing assassins they elicited fear and loathing in the prey, and a certain heady power in the hunter.

J.D. Robb

#2. I write about him to make the ghost stories go away. Everything that haunts me.

Abigail George

#3. One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings

Timothy Zahn

#4. This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?

Derek Landy

#5. You cannot think if you are not separate from the subject of thought. Descartes said, "I think; therefore I am." The philosophic evolutionist reverses and negatives the epigram. He says, "I am not; therefore I cannot think.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Often in those two months I said to myself, If I live, I will wipe this time from my mind; I cannot even bear the memory. Yet now I turn to it. He is gone; and all times when he was there seem like lost riches.

Mary Renault

#7. I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. It is difficult to accept but no less true: If fear is winning in our lives, it is because we simply keep choosing it over our other impulses to be strong or bold or great.

Brendon Burchard

#9. It is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves. We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering.

Shunryu Suzuki

#10. It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.

Julian Barnes

#12. She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

#14. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

David Suzuki

#15. As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

Ellen Hopkins