"People are negative no matter what you do."

“Don't expect others to do your work for you.”

“A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.”

Source : J .K. Hoyt 'Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations' (1896) 402

“Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.”

“Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.”

“When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education”

Source : James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.340

“I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.241, Random House

“When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then”

“When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.”

Source : "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.