Snowfields Academy Quotes & Sayings

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. — Peter Marshall

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. — Dee Hock

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular. — Brando Skyhorse

I disdained to argue, and entrenched my curiosity behind a rampart of pretended indifference. — Agatha Christie

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. — Carter Burwell

The future is now. — Nam June Paik

Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I — Robin Hobb

No, my eldest brother. He was named after our father. Our parents died when the Romans first invaded, and Stephano then became the "head of the family". " She grimaced. "He and I are like oil and water. Or we were. We get along well enough now, though." She grinned. "But boy did he pitch a fit over the concubine thing. He even called in Uncle Lucian to deal with me."

Harper's eyebrows rose. "I'm surprised Lucian bothered to intervene."

..."Yes, well..." Drina grimaced. "I'm afraid while I was een as a concubine, I was really playing puppet master with my lover and kind of ruling the country though him. At least until Uncle Lucian caught wind of it and came to give me hell. — Lynsay Sands

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords. — Nydia Velazquez

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite ... well, intense about driving other people. — Matthew Fox

Each new generation, he thought, fails to learn from the one before. — Noel Hynd

If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important. — Flo Rida

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality — Monks Of New Skete

We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to. — Mark Roberts