Hansche School Quotes & Sayings

Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people. — Stefan Zweig

Worshipped was that of Mammon. It is difficult to estimate the size of monastic occupation. At the time it was believed that the clergy owned one third of the land, but it may be safe to presume that the monks controlled one sixth of English territory. — Peter Ackroyd

An interviewer once asked Mother Teresa what she says to God when she prays. "I don't say anything," she replied. "I just listen." Then the interviewer asked her what God says to her. "He doesn't say anything," said Mother Teresa. "He just listens. And if you don't understand that, I can't explain it to you. — Joseph Goldstein

One of the most powerful aspects of delusion, or ignorance, is the belief that what we do does not really matter. — Sharon Salzberg

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden. — Deborah Moggach

I actually don't get massages very much. But Epsom salt baths are better than any massage. — Emilia Clarke

Even the powerful needed protection sometimes. — J.R. Ward

And the rest is happily ever After. T — Jennifer Echols

Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven. — Saint Patrick

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know. — Nancy Mitford

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God — Jonathan Edwards

(Charles Morgan, Jr., Southern Director of the ACLU in 1966, upon seeing conditions in the Jefferson County jail):

...I knew that [Southern whites] would have annihilated blacks had they been more literate and less useful. In Hitler's Germany armbands identified Jews. Those with black skin could have been annihilated more easily. But they were the labor pool with which to break strikes. They served as the pickers of cotton, the diggers of ditches. They emptied bedpans and cleaned the outhouses of our lives. Uneducated, property-less, disenfranchised, and excluded from justice, except as defendants, they were no threat to whites. While they remained useful and didn't get 'out of line,' their lives were assured, for no matter how worthless lower-class white folks said blacks were, the rich, well born, and able upper-class whites knew that they and black folks were really the only people indispensably required by Our Southern Way of Life. (188) — Wayne Greenhaw

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope — Carl F. H. Henry

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

One of the reasons teenagers rebel is to test the limits to make sure they are still there. But for you it was particularly difficult. And something you never really got over. — Rachel Reiland