Lessons Quotes - Page 17
Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons
Joseph Boyden (2014). “The Orenda: A novel”, p.64, Vintage
John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi
Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.363, Penguin
"Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. xv), 1963.
Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
"“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 31, 1920.
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”