"Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Children Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Despair Quotes

“My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.”

Source : "Natural Hair Celebrity- Chrisette Michele". Curly Nikki Interview, www.curlynikki.com. April 12, 2010.
“If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
“There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“When the world changes, you have to adapt and change with it. It's not just death and taxes that we can always count on in life.... add 'change' to that mix. No matter what, tomorrow will always be a little bit different than today.”
“The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.”
“I think it just kind of comes naturally to me. I feel like I've been coached that way my whole life - to play dirty and to play mean.”
“Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.”

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