Following are some sayings that i collected from my previous reading:-
- Resilience speaks louder than despair.
- Poor oral and written communication skills are rampant no matter what the student educational background or college ranking.
- No matter how busy you may think you are you must find time for reading now, or surrender yourself to self-ignorance.
- Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
- Take advantage of the opportunities, no matter how few they were.
- The potential to save lives makes the risk worthwhile.
- It is by studying others that we learn about ourselves.
- If we witness injustice or the violation of another human being's rights it's our duty to take the gloves off and speak up -- even if it hurts some feelings.
- Exercise can chase off the blues.
- The cause [of quarell] was so trivial that the whole thing was a pure waste of breath.
- Hustle -- you can't survive without it. A quitter never win; a winner never quit. It's easy to be ordinary, but it take guts to excel.
- The Unied States is still the dominant force in technology innovation, productivity and profits. But American don't quite realize how fast the rest of the world is catching up.
- "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.Don't assume that it's too late to get involve." -- Tuesday with Morrie, Mitch Albom (1958)
- Americans becoming a postindustrial society that specializes in consumption and leisure.
- No worker from a rich country can equal the energy of someone trying to move out of poverty.
- History is more than just a quilt or a stick of furniture. It's time to use history to understand and appreciate the role of change in our lives.
- When you forgive someone, it doesn't excuse his actions; it frees you from stress and suffering.
- When she was just a few weeks old, and I was rocking her because she was crying. I just looked at her and said:
"Chelsea, you're never been a baby before, and I've never been a mother before, and we're just going to have to help each other get through this." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Putting yourself in the moccassins of the victim.
- Everything worth doing is worth doing right.
Meaning: Concede defeat
Example:
- The Serbs want the Bosnians to cry uncle.
- If you say uncle right now, I'll let you go first in the next game.
It seems that while "crying uncle" is today regarded as an Americanism, its origins go all the way back to the Roman Empire. Roman children, when beset by a bully, would be forced to say "Patrue, mi Patruissimo," or "Uncle, my best Uncle," in order to surrender and be freed.
As to precisely "why" bullies force their victims to "cry uncle," opinions vary. It may be that the ritual is simply a way of making the victim call out for help from a grownup, thus proving his or her helplessness. Alternatively, it may have started as a way of forcing the victim to grant the bully a title of respect -- in Roman times, your father's brother was accorded nearly the same power and status as your father. The form of "uncle" used in the Latin phrase ("patrue") tends to support this theory, inasmuch as it specifically denoted your paternal uncle, as opposed to the brother of your mother ("avunculus"), who occupied a somewhat lower rung in patrilineal Roman society.
There's a saying that you broaden your horizons through travel, but if you are curious enough to listen to other people, you can broaden your horizons without leaving your backyard.
