"There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature."

-- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#Country Quotes #Age Quotes #Might Quotes

“I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.134, Wendy Lamb Books
“Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.”
“My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.”
“One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.”
“Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.”
“I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.”
“There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...”
“When we were designing 'Mario Kart 64,' we wanted it to feel like the player is controlling an RC car. If you play this game and get this feeling, then we will be happy because we accomplished our goal.”

Source : Nintendo Power, Volume 92, January 1997.

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