Yolanta Kaneps Quotes

#1. The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

N. T. Wright

#2. Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Mark Kingwell

#3. That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Hugh Miller

#4. Barni loved talking about the dresses. "Aren't they huge? I've just always been this way," she said, twirling a little. "Just born healthy, I guess."
Oh, God. I hated her so much.

Katherine Center

#5. The encaged and suicidal have a really hard time imagining anyone caring passionately about anything.

David Foster Wallace

#6. It was I who was conquered. In just seven nights, that fledgling goddess not only discovered that I had a heart, but she stole it forever, then cradled it in the palm of her hand.

Celeste Bradley

#7. I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence.

Shane Peacock

#8. The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.

Jonathan LaPaglia

#9. Love is a gift. Passion is a curse

Alyson Noel

#10. The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

Edmund Burke

#11. It is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Audre Lorde

#12. Unlike others before him, Oglethorpe felt the disadvantaged could be reclaimed if they were given a fair chance.

Nancy Isenberg

#13. The maturity of man - that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

Susan Cain