Heatherleys School Quotes & Sayings

Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating. — Pauline Quirke

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter. — Janette Turner Hospital

I became a reporter because I never found out the ending to my own story. Thirty years after Ben's abduction, the only answers I could find were for others, the victims, or those they left behind. The crime beat was a natural for me. The people I wrote about were the most fragile, the most broken, and they needed the most answers. I pieced together the frayed strands that had once been their lives, not always happy, but better off than where they ended up. I had to tell their stories. I felt like I owed the victims at least that...Julia Gooden, THE LAST TIME SHE SAW HIM — Jane Haseldine

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job — Alexander Isley

Your extracurricular activities are definitely somewhat lackluster, Annie."
"What? Being the daughter of a celebrated criminal doesn't count as an extracurricular activity?"
"No," Scarlet said. "A case could be made for poisoning your ex-boyfriend however. — Gabrielle Zevin

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news. — Michael K. Simpson

Educating children by age group assumes that the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture. — Ken Robinson

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What if experience is disappointment, and a human's old age has no sense, and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment? — Lara Biyuts

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter. — Henry Ford

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either. — Jennifer Aniston

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. — Alexander Pope

With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn. — Charles Tilly

The more you take care of the good things in your life, the longer they stick around and the better they become. — Maci Bookout