Dominelli School Quotes & Sayings

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. — Emily Giffin

The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or ... basically, sometimes you just have to keep going. — Jojo Moyes

My name is Nathan, just twenty-three and given to the curation of stories. I listen, retain, then polish and release them over the fire at night, when the others hush and lean forward in their desire to hear of the past. They crave romance, particularly when autumn sets in and cold nights await them, and so I speak of Alice, and Bethany, and Sarah, and Val, and other dead women who all once had lustrous hair and never a bad word on their plump lips. I can remember this is not how they were; I knew them, I knew them! Only six years have passed and yet I mythologize them as if it is six thousand. I am not culpable. Language is changing, like the earth, like the sea. We live in lonely, fateful flux, outnumbered and outgrown. — Aliya Whiteley

What you were is yesterday.
What you are is now.
What you can be is tomorrow.
What you decide to be is today. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you. — Louisa May Alcott

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. — Anne Tyler

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. — John Masefield