Clissold School Quotes & Sayings

Only one man I love enough to do something like golfing for, and it's not Dad. — Kaje Harper

Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'

'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules. — Fuminori Nakamura

If you always have to be watching yourself and judging, I don't think you're as free. — Susan Sarandon

Those four effects described above - shaping a male-dominant view of sexuality, initiating victims, contributing to difficulty in separating sexual fantasy and reality, and providing a training manual for abusers - are at work just as much with men who have not engaged in activities that meet the legal definition of rape. Here we have to let go of a comforting illusion - that there is some clear line between men who rape and men who don't, between the bad guys and the good guys. — Robert Jensen

Fake it till you make it actually worked. — Gayle Forman

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other. — Edmund Burke

The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't. — John Green

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15. — Juanes

When you lost someone to addiction- and he had lost many- you lost something very precious. You watched them fall. You waited for them to hit the bottom. It was a terrible wait. — Cassandra Clare

It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process. — Alain De Botton

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes. — Katha Pollitt

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.' — Grace Jones

Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort
that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice. — Evelyn Underhill