"Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment."

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Cynthia Lewis

#Teaching Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Long Quotes

“Seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace frees us to be for others all we need to be.”
“Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment â€“ and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.”

Source : Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.
“Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.”

Source : "The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS" by Heinz Hohne, (p. 166), 2000.
“Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.”

Source : Sulak Sivaraksa (1999). “Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation”, Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development
“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. September 10, 1994.
“When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.”
“If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.”
“I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.”

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