Quotes & Sayings About Annual Day Programme

She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some part of mortality, and that the time might come when she would herself look back with wonder and perhaps envy on her having known no greater vexation. — Jane Austen

For there is one thing we must never forget ... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards. — Adolf Hitler

Clarent and Excalibur. Together. Yesterday, he had held them in his hands and watched as the two swords had fused together to create a single stone sword. Even from across the room, Dee could feel the power radiating from the object in long slow waves. — Michael Scott

I loved you both, I really did, but you can both be incredibly weak. — Anonymous

Deferral of gratification may be an effect, not a cause. Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was responsible for the impressive results found ten years later. Instead, both of these things may have been due to something about their home environment. If that's true, there's no reason to believe that enhancing children's ability to defer gratification would be beneficial: It was just a marker, not a cause. By way of analogy, teenagers who visit ski resorts over winter break probably have a superior record of being admitted to the Ivy League. Should we therefore hire consultants to teach low-income children how to ski in order to improve the odds that colleges will accept them? — Alfie Kohn

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. — Seamus Heaney

Men give advice; God gives guidance. — Leonard Ravenhill

Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Any love that is followed by jealousy is certainly not true love, it is biological instinct. — Osho

Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts. — Frederick Dodson

. . . they lurk passively, like vampire sheep — Margaret Atwood

We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution. — Plutarco Elias Calles

Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of hierarchy that demonizes some options over others, demonizes them in respect to, what - ideology or moral code? — Joan Fontcuberta