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“Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.”
Source : William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.188, Anchor
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“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
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“One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.”
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“The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.”
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“You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy”
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“the devil makes a great deal of the religion we see ...”
Source : Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.226
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“Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.”
Source : Joyce Appleby (2007). “A Restless Past: History and the American Public”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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“The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.”
