Swingley Ridge Quotes

#1. Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

Marty Rubin

#2. Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

Alexandra Adornetto

#3. Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing - and to know the thing is to command it.

Guillermo Del Toro

#4. Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

Clarence Darrow

#6. We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

Cornel West

#7. Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Richard Davidson

#8. we knew the Witch Doctor was busy in the village. I've got the spot marked to a certainty in my mind, and all of you notice that there's the finest cedar growing directly above him on the top of the wall,

Frank Fowler

#9. In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

Simon Cowell

#10. We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

Timothy Keller

#11. The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.

John Perry Barlow

#12. War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

Bell Hooks

#14. Beggars cannot be choosers.

Zadie Smith

#15. Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.

Janet Fitch