Langara College Quotes & Sayings

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. — John Ortberg Jr.

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to the combatant who is both physically and mentally nonresistant. — Robert Linssen

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose. — Lord Byron

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. — Matthew Simpson

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. — Barry Hannah

The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out. — David Allan Coe

Emma stared at the ceiling of the hotel room. Her thoughts went over every memorial, each picture, the families and children left behind. At this point it was a nightly routine. Some people counted sheep. Emma counted her father's victims. One by one. — Anais Torres

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. — Gordon Brown

Should we tell your father I'm his date for the evening, or should I just surprise him?" She pulls out a piece of tomato, inspects it, scrapes something off it, then sticks it back on the hamburger.
"He won't notice," Hilary says. "He can't even tell me and Lily apart, and look at us. Just look at us."
"My dad never calls me by the right name," I say. "Only by my older sisters'. Sometimes he'll call me 'honey' really awkwardly. He's not the honey type, but it gets him out of having to remember my name."
Phoebe says, "All parents have trouble with names. I'm an only child, and my dad sometimes stops and says, 'Uh, you. — Claire LaZebnik

I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way. — Leigh Bardugo

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself. — Eugene Cernan

I looked, and saw: before her, cast from an unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent beauty. She trembled, and sank again on the floor helpless. She knew the one that God had intended her to be, the other that she had made herself. — George MacDonald

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset. — Jaroslav Hasek

Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more. — Imogen Heap