Fastweb Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks. — Marge Piercy

We seize control FOR THE GREATER GOOD. — J.K. Rowling

My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that believing is nothing. My own heart killed me. — Kyo

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is — Zinedine Zidane

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting. — Augusten Burroughs

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. — Adam Osborne

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers. — Carson McCullers

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
[Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis.] — Horace

Being an elite is not a mere possession or something "within" an actor (skills, talents, and human capital); it is an embodied performative act enabled by by both possessions and the inscriptions that accompany experiences within elite institutions (schools, clubs, families, networks, etc.). Our bodily tastes, dispositions, and tendencies are not simply something we're born with; they are things that are produced through our experiences in the world. Not only do they occur in our minds, but they are things we enact repeatedly so that soon these performances look less and less like an artificial role we're playing- a role that might advantage us- and instead look more and more like just who we naturally are. pg. 136 — Shamus Rahman Khan