Leeming Quotes & Sayings

You seem to fit the part all right. Your technical record is first-class. Your disciplinary record stinks to high heaven.' He eyed his listener blank faced. 'Two charges of refusing to obey a lawful order. Four for insolence and insubordination. One for parading with your cap on back to front. What on earth made you do that?'
I had a bad attack of what-the-hell, sir,' explained Leeming. — Eric Frank Russell

To overcome your fear of death, you have to move from 'the world ends with me' to 'the world goes on without me'. It is a great leap, the biggest step a human can take. — Shashi Deshpande

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

The goal is soccer's orgasm. And like orgasms, goals have become an ever less frequent occurrence in modern life. — Eduardo Galeano

Nothing was more beautiful than a night sky dusted with stars. Nothing was more terrible than a night sky scrawled with a thousand destinies. Night was inevitable. Like me. — Roshani Chokshi

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. — Simon Beaufoy

FIGURE 7: 'PAUSE, PROMPT, PRAISE' HOME-TUTORING PROCEDURES — Matthew R. Sanders

Evil, be thou my good. — John Milton

Apple"

Sometimes when eating an apple
I bite too far
and open the little room
the lovers have prepared,
and the seeds fall out
onto the kitchen floor
and I see
that they are tear-shaped. — Jay Leeming

in that report. She — Ally Condie

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age. — Howard Fast

Life is like the clouds we see everyday.The dark,white patches
and its mixtures.These are what we see and experience everyday. — Seyi Ayoola

One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg's printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn't really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways. — Steven Johnson

See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something. — Sarah Dessen

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe ... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today. — Clara Hughes