Prestwood School Quotes & Sayings

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart. — Thomas Watson

When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act. — Charles Eisenstein

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole. — James Taylor

We are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson McCullers

After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves. — Mary Balogh

Told you, somethin's good, it's worth fightin' for but not if you're the only one fightin'. — Kristen Ashley

Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists
job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs
shattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulterated, raw thought and
emotion. Art that does nothing new, that simply fills an established role, is not art.
It is a product. A stale, stagnant product of a disgustingly mundane process that has been
done so much it is assumed mandatory. Little different than feces. The last thing the world
needs is to get shittier. — Jonathan Culver

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier. — Mary Renault

England is a nation of shopkeepers. — Napoleon Bonaparte

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens. — Bernard DeVoto

I'm twenty years old,' said Laurent, 'and I've been the recipient of offers almost as long as I can remember.'
'Is that an answer?' said Damen.
'I'm not a virgin,' said Laurent.
'I wondered,' Damen said, carefully, 'if you reserved your love for women.'
'No, I
' Laurent sounded surprised. Then he seemed to realise that his surprise gave something fundamental away, and he looked away with a muttered breath; when he looked back at Damen there was a wry smile on his lips, but he said, steadily, 'No.'
'Have I said something to offend you? I didn't mean
'
'No. A plausible, benign and uncomplicated theory. Trust you to come up with it.'
'It's not my fault that no one in your country can think in a straight line,' said Damen, frowning a touch defensively. — C.S. Pacat

I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals ... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose. — Robert A. Heinlein

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. — Alfred North Whitehead