#class

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#counselor #earth #god #happiness #heaven

Leaking of classified material is a concern. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#concern #leaking #material

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation. ↗

— Gary Locke

#attitude #can-do #defined #education #grow

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#audience #because #believed #classmates #could

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#afterwards #classical #considerations #course #determined

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#history #life

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#drinking #drunkenness #retort #today

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#life-experience #schooling #time #experience

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others. ↗

— Usama Ejaz

#benefit-others #classics #inspirational #kindness #life

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#barrie #classics #fantasy #j-m #pan