"For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught."

-- W. C. Sellar

#Teaching Quotes #Wish Quotes #Taught Quotes

“If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.”

Source : "'SNL's' Darrell Hammond Reveals Cutting, Abuse". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November, 2011.
“A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.”
“Never answer a hypothetical question.”
“The craziest of all political systems, the unique dictatorship, found its earned end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English and Russians was a necessary occurrence to disrupt the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.”

Source : "My Opposition, Volume 2 (May 1, 1945)". Diary by Friedrich Kellner, 2011.
“If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.”
“There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around, so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it-and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine-from anywhere in the world. I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.”

Source : "Jane Birkin's Birkin Sells For $163,000!" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. April 20, 2011.
“I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too.”
“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.”

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