Highett Youth Quotes & Sayings

Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed — Frank Herbert

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything. — Gloria Steinem

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it. — Peter Kindersley

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty. — Henri Matisse

In an election, there are no kings. — Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability. — Hillary Clinton

The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again. — Jane Yolen

Finally, Slade had the thing he'd never thought he would have. The thing he'd never even thought he wanted. He had the same thing his best friend had with his sister: he had the love of a woman. Not just any woman, but the woman he loved with all that he was — Sidney Halston

Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others ... And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born? — Annie Dillard

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I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations. — Matt Berry

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York. — Tory Burch

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. — Mohammed Morsi

God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down. — Rainbow Rowell

There is a little furnace within every heart that burns pain. It is formed by a masonry of scars as tick by tick the tireless mechanics of life strip the innocence bestowed upon us at birth. There are some in whom life builds the furnace small and controllable, a passionate heat to burn off the losses, the harsh words and petty disappointments, leaving us cleaner for it. There are others. There are those whose innocence is assaulted early and with such brutality, that it goes beyond all the boundaries of deities and angels to stray into the world of unfettered evil. They build their furnaces differently. — Robert E. Dunn

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy ... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? — Humphry Davy