Ms. B > Ms. B's Quotes

“People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.”
― David Almond, Skellig

“Look for battles big enough to matter but, at the same time, small enough to win some realistic victories.”
― Johnathan Kozol

“Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen.”
― William Kent Krueger

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes, teachers must be hard. People must be given a hard message because life is hard, and dying is hard,”
― Nietzsche

“Starting in 1792 with George Washington, there were financial crises every ten to fifteen years. Panics, bank runs, credit freezes, crashes, depressions. People lost their farms, families were wiped out. This went on for more than a hundred years, until the Great Depression, when Oklahoma turned to dust. "We can do better than this." Americans said. "We don't need to go back to the boom-and-bust cycle." The Great Depression produced three regulations:
The FDIC-your bank deposits were safe.
Glass-Steagall-banks couldn't go crazy with your money.
The SEC-stock markets would be tightly controlled.
For fifty years, these rules kept America from having another financial crisis. Not one panic or meltdown or freeze. They gave Americans security and prosperity. Banking was dull. The country produced the greatest middle class the world had ever seen.”
― Elizabeth Warren

“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”
― Peter Thiel

“. . . the bond bubble, the tech bubble, the stock bubble, the emerging markets bubble, the housing bubble. . . One by one they had all burst, and their bursting showed that they had been temporary solutions to long-term problems, maybe evasions of those problems, distractions. With so many bubbles-so many people chasing ephemera, all at the same time-it was clear that things were fundamentally not working.”
― Peter Thiel

“We're struggling, but we're not starving. There's no life, but there's a roof over your head.”
― Danny Hartzell

“I will tell you what's left, three profound blessings. In his first letter to the Corinthians, Saint Paul tells us exactly what they are: faith, hope, and love,. These gifts, which are the foundation of eternity, God has given to us and he's given us complete control over them. Even in the darkest night it's still within our power to hold faith. We can still embrace hope. And although we may feel ourselves unloved we can still stand steadfast in our love for others and for God. All this is in our control. God gave us these gifts and he does not take them back. It is we who chooses to discard them.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“I'm tired of feeling mad. I'm tired of feeling sad. . . I just want things to be okay again.”
― William Kent Krueger

“If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't any of us have to be afraid anymore.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“Human beings are the best hope in the world of other human beings to survive.”
― Gavriel Savit

“Look at me Pieter", she said. He looked up tears in his eyes. "Don't ever pretend that you did not know what was going on here. You have eyes and you have ears. And you sat in that room on many occasions, taking notes. You heard it all. You saw it all. You knew it all. And you also know the things you are responsible for." She hesitated, but it needed to be said. "The deaths you have on your conscience. But you're a young man still; you're only sixteen. You have many years ahead of you to come to terms with your complicity in these matters. Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know." She released him now from her grip. "That would be the worst crime of all." - Herta”
― John Boyne, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

“Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know.... That would be the worst crime of all.”
― John Boyne, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

“The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Now I know why they call sick people by the word 'patient'. The patient has to have patience. Wait and wait and wait and not lose hope" -Ruthie”
― Ruth Behar, Lucky Broken Girl

“I don't know what's worse. Being mistreated because of the color of your skin, your size, or having to prove that it really happened.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“It's kind of not fair for us to feel guilty for getting what we deserve. We work hard....I know so many people who work hard but still don't get the things they deserve, sometimes not even the things they need.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“It's not stuff you leave with. It's love.”
― Matt de la Pena, Love

“Her mother had told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them, and Helen thought about that now, as she felt herself smile involuntarily.”
― J. Ryan Stradal

“You can't judge people for the mistakes they make. You judge them for how they fix those mistakes.”
― Barbara O'Connor, Wish

“But when help isn't invited, it ain't nothing but an unwanted houseguest.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“But the truth was for me, making the wrong choice had become an art.”
― Megan E. Bryant, Glow

“No reason. They (some things) just are, and that's all there is to it. Some things you just have to accept and move on from.”
― A.F. Harrold, The Afterwards

“But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance