Unobstructive Quotes

#1. It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

Richard Whately

#2. 'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Dianne Feinstein

#3. All heroes are shadows of Christ

John Piper

#4. There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

Olivia Newton-John

#6. Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

Susana Martinez

#7. Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.

Heather Schuck

#8. Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins.

Katherine Mansfield

#10. As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember ... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

Wayne Dyer

#11. A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Martin Buber

#12. Leo didn't laugh.
He also didn't cry. Which it looked for a minute like he might do. I knew that feeling. Hold your mouth tight, tell your heart not to hurt, tell your brain not to think about what might happen next.

Ally Condie