Quotes About Prescriptivism

#1. I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

#2. Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.

Erykah Badu

#3. We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Mona Simpson

#4. There are just some kind of men ... who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

Harper Lee

#5. There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#6. If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#7. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

George Orwell

#8. And she's thinking of rage, like an ember or a burning acid swallowing up her knotted viscera. Blindness like the kind that leads men to perpetrate horrors, animal drunkenness, the jungles of the mind.

Alden Bell

#9. But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

Bodhidharma

#10. When we combine the set of whole numbers with their opposites, including zero, we
obtain a set of numbers we call integers. That

Judith Sowder

#11. Not to know. Not to remember.
With this one hope:
That beyond the River Lethe, there is memory, healed.

Czeslaw Milosz

#12. (autarky does not encourage technological transfer).

Thomas Piketty

#13. I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.

Mary Oliver

#14. In troubled times the efforts of one extraordinary person can turn the tide

Sara Donovan