Hurlbut Academy Quotes & Sayings

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. — Alexander Pope

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me. — Royce Gracie

Our sweetest existence is relative and collective and our true self is not entirely in us. Such is man's constitution in this life that he never succeeds in truly enjoying himself without the help of other people. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We believe, not because we want to know, but because we want to be. — Thomas Merton

A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while such correspondence is, probably, the most fundamental general feature of life on Earth. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities. — Thomas Moore

The world fell out of love with love at some point. — Caroline Kepnes

Neither of them had learned, after two divorces, that people can't be applied to wounds like gauze. — Christie Yant

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? — Clarence Darrow

The wind never forgets a face. — Dora Okeyo

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right. — Jack Kerouac

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point. — Robert Collier

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe ... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. — John F. Kennedy

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting. — Douglas Adams