Oxbridge Academy Quotes & Sayings

In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem. — Leslie Charteris

Sympathy is the child of imagination — Clarence Darrow

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. — Robert Benchley

I know how it wears on a soul. How it eats little pieces of your heart at unexpected times. How you can go whole weeks happily occupied, feeling no melancholy or deprivation, and then the smallest thing ... Someone opens a letter, perhaps. Or stitches up a ripped garment that belongs to someone else. And it makes you realize how ... adrift you are. Not tied to anyone. — Tessa Dare

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Yes," Bitterblue said. "I suppose you could convert everything into minutes. Twelve times sixty is seven hundred twenty, and fifteen times fifty is seven hundred fifty. So our seven-hundred-twenty-minute half day equals its seven-hundred-fifty-minute half day. Let's see ... Right now, the watch reads a time of nearly twenty-five past two. That's one hundred twenty-five total minutes, which, divided by seven hundred fifty, should equal our time in minutes divided by seven hundred twenty ... so, seven hundred twenty times one hundred twenty-five is ... give me a moment ... ninety thousand ... divided by seven hundred fifty ... is one hundred twenty ... which means ... well! The numbers are quite neat, aren't they? It's just about two o'clock. I should go home. — Kristin Cashore

Who controls money controls the world. — Henry A. Kissinger

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble. — John F. Kennedy

I was putting all those pressures on myself. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie. — Krisi Keley

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private. — Rick Warren

You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed. — Karen Salmansohn

You are not keeping slaves in your household.' 'I can't imagine why,' said Damen. 'If you've forgotten what to do with a slave, I can tell you,' said Laurent. 'You hate the idea of slavery. It turns your stomach.' Damen said it, a flat statement of truth. 'If I'd been anyone else, you would have freed me on the first night.' He searched Laurent's face. 'When I argued the case for slavery in Arles you didn't try to change my mind.' 'It is not a subject for an exchange of ideas. There is nothing to say.' 'There will be slaves in Akielos. We are a slave culture.' 'I know that.' Damen — C.S. Pacat

We speak of moving mountains, but sometimes people can completely rotate the world, just so someone else can land upright on their feet. I — Krista Ritchie