Schauss Mountains Quotes

#1. I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Mark Shepard

#2. The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

Brooke Nevin

#6. I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be

Jamaica Kincaid

#7. One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

Simone Weil

#8. Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets faster and better at chasing you ...

Tiffany FitzHenry

#9. Dorcas's skin was flecked with little golden freckles, and she was so slender that I was always aware of her bones; yet she was more desirable in her imperfections than Jolenta had ever been in the lushness of her flesh.

Gene Wolfe

#10. It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

Ed McMahon

#11. Yes, I hear that people who suffer from brain damage are quite happy. That's what I always wanted for you, Edith: for you to be happy, no matter how many blows to the head it takes.

Josiah Bancroft

#12. That's what the love of God can do: it can take all the bitterness in the world and melt it away.

Anonymous

#13. Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Malcolm Forbes