"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school."

-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Education Quotes #School Quotes #Jail Quotes

“When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say 'no' to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.”

Source : "The Power of 'No'" by Raymond Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.
“The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.”

Source : Orlando Williams Wight, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, Alphonse de Lamartine (1861). “Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.209
“Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.”

Source : "Wales' greatest US bouts: Tommy Farr", BBC Sport, March 31, 2008.
“There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.”
“Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. [Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti; Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat Impetus.]”

Source : "Thebaid" by Statius, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey in "Loeb Classical Library", Vol. 207, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
“I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!”
“People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.”

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