Chieveley School Quotes & Sayings

I don't tend to stand still for very long. — Robin Trower

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends. — Aeschylus

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. — Mahatma Gandhi

When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood. — Hedi Slimane

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze. — Cus D'Amato

We have the ability to survive anything. — Bill Courtney

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. — Ben Jonson

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war. — Bill Vaughan

PAPA: This damn country has done us in. That's why I'm like this. We should be there. Home.
NASSER: But that country has been sodomized by religion. It is beginning to interfere with the making of money. Compared with everywhere, it is a little heaven here. — Hanif Kureishi

Well, what should I have done? Counted every tree?" "Of course, they must be counted. You didn't count them, but Ryabinin did. Ryabinin's children will have means of livelihood and education, while yours maybe will not! — Leo Tolstoy

My manager always preaches golf comes first. — Bubba Watson

Didn't I tell you that you would be safe as long as you were with me?"
"Yes, but I didn't believe you when you pushed me off the edge of a building. — Missy Lyons

A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint. — Michael Novak

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't. — K.J. Bishop