Volkow And Baler Quotes

#1. There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

Chiang Kai-shek

#3. I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

Charles Frazier

#4. If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.

Ruth Simmons

#5. Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

Liz Stanley

#6. The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

Christopher S. Wren

#7. Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

Paul Engle

#8. Epictetus echoes this advice: We should keep in mind that "all things everywhere are perishable.

William B. Irvine

#9. I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#10. If I wanted, I could choose to make my life a place that Brian could step into. He didn't have any room to move, but ...

Mary Ann Rivers

#11. In Australia, kids play in American accents.

Yael Stone

#12. Look, don't you understand?" shouted Arthur. He pointed at Prosser. "That man wants to knock my house down!" Ford glanced at him, puzzled. "Well he can do it while you're away, can't he?" he asked. "But I don't want him to!" "Ah.

Douglas Adams

#13. I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

David Dinkins

#14. You don't need passwords, you don't want to check phones. Sometimes you only want the other person to just tell you the truth!

Manasa Rao

#15. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin