Teaching 

"Give students a sense of confidence in themselves."  Happy Computers

"Learning is finding out what you already know.  Doing is demonstrating that you know it.  Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you."  We are all learners, doers, teachers."  Unknown

"No matter how hard you try, you can't teach physics to a dog."  Nova

"Socratic is better than rote.  Discussion teaches more than dictums.  And paths set in stone are, we've discovered, often rocky as we move along them."  Anna Quindlen

"When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual.  That is the challenge and joy of teaching."  Marva Collins

Teamwork quotations

Technology

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."  Arthur C. Clarke

"Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it."  Unknown

"Stuff that doesn’t work yet."  Bran Ferren

"Technology waits for no one, particularly successful burglars."  Marne Davis Kellogg,  Brilliant

Teddy Bears

"Bears never know where to draw the line.  They are soooo judgmental."  Katherine Hall Page,  The Body in the Attic: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Page, Katherine Hall)

Teen

"Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life."  Christopher Titus,  Titus

"Teenagers are thoughtless, inconsiderate eating machines dedicated to putting us in an early grave."  Malcolm in the Middle - The Complete...  

"This is worse than prison.  this is high school."  Will and Grace

"If televangelists are more worried about getting into heaven than they are about life here on earth, why are they always asking viewers for money?  And why do so many of them wear sharp suits?  Do they think there's going to be a dress code in heaven?"  Stephen King

"How are we supposed to find anything to watch with only a hundred channels??"  Baby Blues

"I don't like the fact that you can see me and I can't see you."  Jon Stewart,  The Daily Show 

"I find television very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."  Groucho Marx

"If the leopard is spotted, it will be shot."  KFOR reporter

"It's an advertising medium that inadvertently presents some entertainment once in a while."  Bill Maher

"TV production runs on coffee and angst."  Jo Bannister,  The Primrose Switchback

"Television is a chewing gum for the eyes."  Frank Lloyd Wright

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."  David Frost

"Television is the first truly democratic culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want.  The most terrifying thing is what the people do want."  Unknown

"Television - those that can't, watch."  Nancy Kamp

"We can't pinch pennies on a machine that's going to be raising our children."  Homer Simpson,  The Simpsons - The Complete First Season

"Anyone who has to be led into temptation doesn't deserve it anyway."  Unknown

Terrorism 

"Absolutely nothing justifies terrorism."  Binyamin Netanyahu

"Everyone feels the loss."  James Walker

"Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know God is not neutral between them."  George W. Bush

"Freedom, Justice and Democracy will prevail."  Margaret Thatcher

"God is great ... and God is good.  And He does not need to kill people to prove that."  Paul Sussman,  The Lost Army of Cambyses

"I asked my mother why there is so much bombing.  We haven't done anything."  Unknown child

"I've seen the most horrible way a man can treat man."  Unknown

"If someone is going to kill me I want him to take a personal interest."  Elizabeth Peters,  Lord of the Silent: A Novel of Suspense  

"It is not an attack on one nation, but on all nations and on civilized people everywhere."  Tony Blair,  July 7, 2005

"Most decent people are on our side, whether Christian, Muslim, Jew, or what-have-you.  Few think mass murder is the answer to anything."  Thomas P. Hopp,  The Jihad Virus: A Novel 

"No cause can be advanced by terror."  Kofi Annan

"Nobody can justify the killing of children."  Colin Powell, on Beslan massacre

"Please tell me, did you hold her hand?"  Sister of a victim of terrorism to a nurse

"So long as people remain on this planet, I think this will remain."  The 14th Dalai Lama

"Terrorism in any form can never be morally justifiable."  Wilbur Smith,  Wild Justice

"Terrorism is not a new thing.  The biology underlying it is innate, part of our animal character.  Terrorism is, quite simply, apish. ... People ascribe complex motivations to terrorists, and terrorists' own opinions of themselves key on themes like revenge and liberation.  But that's superficial.  Deeper down, they have the basest of motives. ... The drive toward personal power; the desire for sex. ... Among the apes, ... the dominant males get all the best. ...But there is always a group waiting in the wings: the angry young males. ... The average terrorist is a young man without influence over events in his life, or over women.  Subconsciously, young male terrorists feel that reducing all of society to their lowly status will put them on an equal footing with their formerly powerful rivals. ... The heavenly rewards promised to Islamic martyrs are the very things the ape wants."  Thomas P. Hopp,  The Jihad Virus: A Novel 

"The best memorial to those who perished would be the achievement of a safer, saner world.  And it is not out of reach."  Kenneth Auchincloss,  Newsweek

"There is no such thing as a good terrorist."  Eric Cantor

"There are no personal problems that can't be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."  Unknown

"To life we owe our compassion and our duty.  But I must wonder what we owe to something completely outside our definition of life, to something that is a kind of living death.  I must wonder if we owe them anything but a real death."  Walter Jon Williams,  Luke Skywalker in Destiny's Way

"We would rather do business with 1000 Arab terrorists than with a single Jew."  Unknown,  Sign at Goldberg's Funeral Home

"What our enemies have begun, we will finish."  George W. Bush

"Whoever killed a human being, except as punishment for murder or other villainy in the land, shall be deemed as though he had killed all mankind."  Koran V:32  (The Qur'an)

"Will we hate back?"  Stahler

Terrorists

It's a mistake to believe that because a state has an insane leader with insane goals, it lacks the competency to carry them out.  Remember, a fanatic enjoys the advantage of choosing the means and the moment.  The fanatic has no moral problems, only technical ones."  Steve Shagan,  Pillars of Fire

"They may be evil but they're not stupid."  Carol Rose

"They wear many faces and go by many disguises, but there is only one name for them: evil.  There is no understanding it.  All we can do is pity and honor the victims."  Christopher Paolini,  Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)

Texas

"Deodorant was invented, probably because of Texas."  Mike Jerrick

Texting

"I hate texting.  I wish it would die.  All this stuff is so far removed from actually getting to know somebody."  Lauren Graham