Isbister School Quotes & Sayings

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people. — Sebastian Faulks

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else. — Charles R. Swindoll

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths. — Thorstein Veblen

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education. — Meg Whitman

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. — Steve Waugh

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And then, if I die anytime soon, at least they'll be able to say that I led a productive life and did all my work on time. I may be dead, but I'll be up to date in Space, Time, and Motion. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals. — Isabel Allende

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there ... and still on your feet. — Stephen King