"Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre."

-- Steven Chu

#Brother Quotes #School Quotes #Sheep Quotes

“Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.”
“In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.”
“Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.173, Hachette UK
“I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this”
“Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.”
“We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.”
“If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.”

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