"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."

-- George Eliot

#Teacher Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Power Quotes

“I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.”
“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
“Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.”
“She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2004). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”, New Amer Library
“There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.”
“Ricky Gervais is a genius.”
“Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.”
“Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.”

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