"They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you canâ€™t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment."

-- Walter Dean Myers

#Punishment Quotes #Matter Quotes #Belts Quotes

“Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.”
“What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.”

Source : Phyllis George (2002). “Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can”, McGraw Hill Professional
“When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.”
“With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making oneâ€™s self useful to himself and all mankind.”
“Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.”
“Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.”
“Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.”
“What did I do to make Mommy leave?â€ â€œYou didnâ€™t do anything. This isnâ€™t your fault.â€ â€œThen why?â€ sheâ€™d wailed. â€œI donâ€™t know,â€ her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. â€œIt isnâ€™t fair!â€ â€œNo, it isnâ€™t, baby. Not by a mile. The worldâ€™s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, thatâ€™s one less fighter on the side of fair.”

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