Rearguard Action Quotes

#1. The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

Hugh Mackay

#2. A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

Joseph Alsop

#3. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

St. Jerome

#4. We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Deepak Chopra

#5. If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Neil Gaiman

#6. There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,
or enemies,
or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

Carolyn Wells

#7. Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.

A.A. Milne

#8. I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

Lisa Marie Presley

#9. I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun,

Jens Lekman