The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people. — Shirley Brice Heath Copy Share Image
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
We have established the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union not by force, but through a compromise. It was a challenging,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them. — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war.… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for… — Campbell Newman Copy Share Image
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image