Joelle Charbonneau quotes

“People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.”
-- Joelle Charbonneau

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”
-- Joelle Charbonneau

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2013). “The Testing Guide”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.”
-- Joelle Charbonneau

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing 2: Independent Study”, p.36, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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“It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren’t certain of the outcome.”
-- Joelle Charbonneau

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing 2: Independent Study”, p.96, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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“Almost all the United Commonwealth presidents have been female. It has been argued that women are less aggressive, more maternal, and thus more focused on the well-being of the country's people. Less focused on politics or power.”
-- Joelle Charbonneau

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing 2: Independent Study”, p.87, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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“Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.”
-- Joelle Charbonneau

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing Trilogy”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“Those who depend fully on another person’s knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all fields, but rely on none when it comes to making a decision.”
-- Joelle Charbonneau

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?”
-- Joelle Charbonneau

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing 2: Independent Study”, p.22, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”