Gcse Past Quotes & Sayings

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. — Garrison Keillor

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active. — Amanda Burton

There is an old saying: No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Tragedy is the highest form of art. — Joyce Carol Oates

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. — Jalaluddin Rumi

It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome. — Nick Harkaway

Anger, unlike fear or sadness, is a moral emotion. It is "righteous." It aims not only to end the current trespass but to repair any damage done. It also aims to prevent further trespass by disarming, imprisoning, emasculating, or killing the trespasser. — Martin E.P. Seligman

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. — Stephen King

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade. — Rob Brydon

Mace watched his beautiful sister. She took after their mother. He took after his father. And they got along about as well as that pair did. — Shelly Laurenston

Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE. — Trevor Phillips

Quality wine, Scotch, and coffee had been the three irreplaceable commodities after the death of Old Earth. — Dan Simmons

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. — Simone Weil

Transform, from a fault-finder and blamer to a solution-finder and appreciator. — Maddy Malhotra

When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right. — Amity Shlaes

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to. — Michelle Dockery

You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time. — Joni Rodgers

Most traders believe that 'getting into the zone' happens when you have 'a hot streak.' I believe you can create the zone. The zone is a psychological state. It is when you are focused, disciplined, and fully engaged in the process at hand ... trading in the zone will certainly increase your capacity to perform and succeed. — Ari Kiev

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all. — Idries Shah

You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's. — Tom Felton