Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes

This Mrs. Emory remembers she phoned the Horton house to talk to her friend about a class reunion.

Carolyn Keene

• Remembers
• Reunion
• Phoned
• Mrs. Emory
• Horton House

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• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Company
  • Will
  • Useful

• Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Government
  • Loved
  • Hated

• A great social reformer.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Social reformer

• On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Afraid

• ...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Christ
  • Christianity
  • Professors

• A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

  

  Arthur Caplan
  • Individual
  • Testing
  • Genetic

• "You only get married the first time once." There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Philosophy
  • First
  • Generation

• That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.

  

  Eddie George
  • Football
  • Environment
  • Story

• I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

  

  Cecil Castellucci
  • Wonder
  • Target

• I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole.

  

  Chicken John
  • Law
  • Tea
  • Worship

• Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Nice
  • Best
  • Goal

• The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Past
  • Illusion
  • Cemetery

• If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Wealth
  • Economic System

• Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Hope
  • Action
  • Symbols

• My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

  

  Raquel Cassidy
  • Young
  • Journalist
  • Travelled

• No one remembers who came in second.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Second
  • Came
  • Remembers

• Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Happiness
  • Treasure
  • Ground

• This Mrs. Emory remembers she phoned the Horton house to talk to her friend about a class reunion.

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Remembers
  • Reunion
  • Phoned