Headteachers Standards Quotes & Sayings

In 2005 ... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. — Joseph J. Romm

The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself. — Karen Kingston

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China. — Frank Carlucci

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction. — Jaggi Vasudev

... they always gave good reasons for the things they did, and then when they got old they lost their reasons for doing anything and sat on the bench in front of the harness shop and had words for the reasons other people had but had forgotten what the reasons were. — Robert Penn Warren

Oh. Really? Smith? The most common, boring name in the world? - Evaline, to Pix — Colleen Gleason

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

When we walk around thinking we have a greater right to eat an animal than the animal has a right to live without suffering, it's corrupting. I'm not speculating. This is our reality. Look at what factory farming is. Look at what we as a society have done to animals as soon as we had the technological power. Look at what we actually do in the name of "animal welfare" and "humaneness," then decide if you still believe in eating meat. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House. — Barack Obama

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does. — Kate Hudson

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in! — John Wolcot

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies. — Stephen Daldry

We don't have to be superstars or win championships ... . All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it. — John Wooden

I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread. — Jim Butcher