quotes about Today's Youth

“Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.”

“I'm going to go to my house and drink a little bit. Can I say that? I guess I can.”

“If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.”

“I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet...”

“The Spirit continued to stir and declare, "You cannot be afraid to face the wolf at the door. Don't let the fear paralyze you. When you get in fear and get paralyzed, sometimes somebody has to come and get you. Whatever is swarming around you that thinks you are dead. you tell it that you are not dead! Tell the vultures you are not dead and that they have to move on! Say, 'Vultures, I am not the meal you thought I was going to be!”

Source : "EXTRA BULLETIN: Chuck Pierce: Stare Eye to Eye Until Your Enemy Retreats". www.elijahlist.com. November 13 , 2010.

“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!”

“The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.”

“If I don't have pressure, I don't function.”

“Dare to wear the foolish clown face.”

“Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.”

Source : Cecelia Ahern (2009). “There's No Place Like Here”, p.83, Hachette UK