Norwin Teachers Quotes & Sayings

How many years had he spent believing that he was meant for more? Sometimes he thought his head was a snarl of myth and folktales, where magic coaxed ignored princes out of the shadows and gave them a crown and a legend to live in. He used to wait for the moment when magic would drape a new world over his eyes. But time turned his hopes dull and lightless. — Roshani Chokshi

If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! ~~ Ranjoor Singh — Talbot Mundy

Nothing phased Nathan. "It's — Jojo Moyes

In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE in the historical past, many of the other stories juxtapose fact-both historical and scientific-with narration to an engaging effect, one that distinguishes the voice of this new writer. — Stuart Dybek

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do. — James MacDonald

The creator wished to look away from himself,
thereupon he created the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As I was sipping the hot liquid, I realized that I had developed a kind of liking for this little man on the verge of death. — Haruki Murakami

Res, non verba,' actions not words. — Miranda Davis

While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.'
No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday. — Victor Hugo

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization. — Ramana Maharshi

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears. — Ann Radcliffe

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain. — Eugene H. Peterson

Despicable rabble," however, pretty much summed up George Washington's opinion of the troops when he arrived in Cambridge in July. In a letter to his brother John, the new commander in chief grumbled, "I found a mixed multitude of People here, under very little discipline, order, or Government. — Sarah Vowell