Halton School Quotes & Sayings

Self-discovery is life recovery. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Her smile reminded Theresa of a movie star smile - toothy and wide, and if you stared too hard at it, not quite real. — Blake Crouch

People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie. — Stephen Covey

And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Lou asked point-blank, Can love last? (Rural people get to philosophizing, and will say anything.)
- Oh, darling! No, not that heart-thumping passion. Give that eighteen months. But it's replaced by something even better.
Lou waited.
- Lovers! — Annie Dillard

This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time. — Ernst Junger

I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because you have either real examples that you work with, maybe some specific person that inspires you in that case, or the performances from other people, or the characters, or a character from a book. — Penelope Cruz

When you first came, you were less than human, but right now you make a pretty good girl in love. — Mika Yamamori

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie. — Rob Lowe

George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes. — Mette Ivie Harrison

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow — George R R Martin

He stared and talked at the girl's red hair and amused face for what seemed to be a few minutes; and then, feeling that the groups in such a place should mix, rose to his feet. To his astonishment, he discovered the whole garden empty. Everyone had gone long ago, and he went himself with a rather hurried apology. He left with a sense of champagne in his head, which he could not afterwards explain. In the wild events which were to follow, this girl had no part at all; he never saw her again until all his tale was over. And yet, in some indescribable way, she kept recurring like a motive in music through all his mad adventures afterwards, and the glory of her strange hair ran like a red thread through those dark and ill-drawn tapestries of the night. For what followed was so improbable that it might well have been a dream. — G.K. Chesterton

Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked. — Salman Rushdie

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — G.K. Chesterton