Katherine Ryan Quotes

One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.

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• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Progress

• I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Christian

• I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Keep

• I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Small

• Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• I've done some good work and some not-good work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Great
  • Best

• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • May
  • Problem
  • Lies

• Home! That was an old word, one of the first the children had ever learned. You used it without thinking, a hundred times a day. It had meant so many different things!..Home was an elastic word and even meaningless at times....

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Really
  • Importance

• What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Freedom
  • Space
  • Deep

• What a mistake rage is ! anger should never go beyond a sneer, if it really desires revenge.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Mistake
  • Revenge

• India demands Home Rule for two reasons, one essential and vital, the other less important but necessary: Firstly, because Freedom is the birthright of every Nation; secondly, because her most important interests are now made subservient to the interests of the British Empire without her consent, and her resources are not utilised for her greatest needs.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Important
  • Home
  • Freedom

• Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society

• I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

  

  Leonard Cohen

• The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Sky

• It was as the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Rose

• Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• People have always asked me why my favorite event was floor, and my answer was always, 'Because I love to dance!'

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • People
  • Why
  • Dance

• I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wife
  • Violence

• Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

  

  Charles Henry Parkhurst
  • Faith

• Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

  

  Joe Namath
  • Family
  • College
  • Sports

• One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.

  

  Katherine Ryan