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Robert A. Heinlein quote: "There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons,..."
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. Robert A. Heinlein
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. Ray Bradbury
The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's. Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace Edith Wharton
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed. I have to cast my lot with thosewho age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. Adrienne Rich
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming. Rene Descartes
Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls. Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags. And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars. Shel Silverstein
We cannot expect the Americans to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but, we can assist their leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly wake up to find they have Communism. Nikita Khrushchev
Oscar Wilde quote: "Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be..."
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. Oscar Wilde
What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolate?. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and back again from the whole thus reached to the particular significant facts. Karl Jaspers
You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self. Phil McGraw
We all know that books will burn -- yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... Franklin D. Roosevelt
True religion, indeed, is that which does not have to be avowed in order to provide the solace that at times...if only rarely...you cannot do without. Italo Svevo
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them. Malcolm Gladwell

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