"Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Running Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Rap Quotes

“No doubt, you've got a parliament now - I mean, Malcolm Turnbull says he'll work with the parliament he's got. He's got a parliament where a majority of the members of parliament want that law to be changed. He's got a parliament where there's a majority in each House who have publicly said they want to have a Royal Commission into banks.”
“As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.”
“For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry Hill". "Goodfellas", 1990.
“You are all you will ever have for certain.”
“Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.”
“Sometimes you couldnâ€™t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.”
“True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.”
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.”

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