Leamy School Quotes & Sayings

The [articles of the Genva Convention] adopted by The International Committee drew upon...the codes of a warrior's honour...these codes vary from culture to culture and their common features are the oldest artifacts of human morality: from Christian chivalry... to the Japanese Bushido or way of the warrior... The codes acknowledged the moral paradox of battle: that those who fight ...bravely are bound [by]...mutual respect... — Michael Ignatieff

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can't bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured. — Banana Yoshimoto

True photographs tend to remain on the streets, the story almost about to enter the edge of the frame of the snapshot or the shutter closing a moment too late, the story having just abandoned the frame. — Doug Rice

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. — Chuck Yeager

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf. — Rafael Nadal

Folly always knows the answer. — Mason Cooley

Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life. — Steven Magee

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner. — Erle Stanley Gardner

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words. — Bruce Jackson

I think that at 21, I still look like I'm 17 years old, so I feel like I'm going to be playing teenagers for a while, and that's a very relatable stage in a teenage life for a female - that kind of rambunctious stage. — Willa Holland

And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn't have to be a killer. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery. — Alain De Botton