Schoolmistress 3 Quotes & Sayings

Why do silences mean something different when we're with different people? With you, it's never awkward, is it? It's just silence. But with other people, I feel the need to fill it with inane ramblings. What's wrong with silence? — Holly Martin

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden. — Irvin D. Yalom

Great men never look at a person's exterior. They think of his heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you? — E. M. Forster

He glared at Gracious. "I can't believe you fell asleep."
"I didn't fall asleep."
"Then do you know if she's home or not?"
"I haven't a clue," Gracious admitted. "I fell asleep. — Derek Landy

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing. — Jody Williams

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine. — Henry James

For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes. — Michel De Montaigne

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher. — Tertullian

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress. — Henry David Thoreau

I grew up then, into this life of jazz, and fell immediately into the state of almost audible confusion. Life stood over me like an immoral schoolmistress, editing my thoughts. It seemed to me that there was no ultimate goal for man. Man was beginning a grotesque and bewildered fight with nature, that by the divine and magnificent accident has brought us to where we could fly in her face. We produce a Christ who can raise up the leper and presently, it's the salt of the Earth. If any one can find lesson in that, let him stand forth. Am I crazy trying to pierce the darkness of political idealism with some wild, despairing urge towards truth? Trying to separate the knowable from the unknowable? — F Scott Fitzgerald

Then strong, warm arms wrapped around me from behind. "I've got you," Tod whispered in my ear. — Rachel Vincent

Magnanimous of you.'
His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo. — Julie Anne Long

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer his death. — Billy Graham

I'm not going to lie to you and convince you that I'm someone good and shiny like your guy that's going to be a doctor. — Sophie Jordan

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society. — Nikki Sixx

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable. — Ernest Hemingway,