Selsdon High School Quotes & Sayings

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are,
/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition. — Zac Efron

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Peacetime — Ben Horowitz

Faster's always better, but you have to mind those curves. They're wicked. They can kill a man in a heartbeat. — J.C. Reed

It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger! — Israelmore Ayivor

We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being. — Anthony Esolen

You did not abandon them in the wilderness because of Your great compassion. Nehemiah 9:19 — Beth Moore

There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships. — Michelle Gielan

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. — Armando Iannucci

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war. — Eduardo Galeano

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because ... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems. — Calvin Coolidge

In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment
the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth
until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters. — Dag Hammarskjold