Gavin Sharples Quotes & Sayings

And I know there's a million more things we need to say to each other, but all I can think about right now is how much I want to kiss you. — Rachel McIntyre

We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present. — Grace Lee Boggs

I want to be a champion. — Kevin Durant

Alston snorted. "Be realistic, Peri. You don't have the power to challenge us. Not unless you possessed all of the Fae stones."
Peri pulled both hands from the pockets in her robes and held them out, fist clenched and palms upward, to the Fae arrayed before he. She slowly unclenched her fists, revealing the five Fae stones, two in her left hand, and three in her right. The Fae stones, which only appeared in times of greatest need, lay ominously in her outstretched hands.
"How do you like me now bee-otch?" She grinned, wickedly. — Quinn Loftis

Just because we've been dealt a certain hand doesn't mean we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of destiny that none of us wanted. — Stephenie Meyer

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it. — Susan Orlean

Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone — Alfred Tennyson

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought. — Marina Tsvetaeva

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days. — Robert Anderson

Contrary to the movies, police work does not consist solely of chasing after the bad guy down dark, forbidding alleyways. Most of the real chasing is done sitting behind a desk with a telephone glued to the ear, hunting down new leads and investigating paper trails. — Keith Houghton

Smooth words in place of gifts.
[Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.] — Plautus

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. — Terry Orlick

Be careful when you set intentions; they just might manifest. — Russell Eric Dobda

Could a more perfect manufactured object than a tennis ball be imagined? Fuzzy and spherical, squeezable and bouncy, its stitching a pair of matching tongues, its voice on impact a pock in the most pleasing of registers. Dogs knew a good thing, dogs loved tennis balls, and so did she. — Jonathan Franzen