Chapter 4 Grendel Quotes & Sayings

As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose. — Mike Krzyzewski

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration. — Barbara Kingsolver

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin. — John Irving

I wish I were as good a man as my son is. — Mario Cuomo

Class envy is dangerous. — Jack Abramoff

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum. — Olympe De Gouges

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens. — Christine Lagarde

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

My best friend is Lily Aldridge. Her daughter's my godchild. — Erin Heatherton

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants. — Phillips Brooks

If I ever invade Calderon again," he said, "it will be in the summer. — Jim Butcher

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches. — Frank Herbert