"Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten."

-- Lancelot Andrewes

#Teacher Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.”
“Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.187, Penguin
“Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.”
“What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.29, New Directions Publishing
“The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.”
“Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.”
“Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.”

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