Student Council Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

When, in this way, the principles are entirely annihilated, all everyday practices are made enjoyable, because they are not deliberated. — Jayarasi BhaTTa

CHAPTER II. - The Maniac — G.K. Chesterton

Once someone's dead you can't make them undead. — Tim O'Brien

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice. — David Petraeus

even when a political truth is enshrined in written documents, it is seldom that these have any more value than a radiographic plate on which the layman imagines that the patient's disease is inscribed in so many words, whereas in fact the plate furnishes simply one piece of material for study, to be combined with a number of others on which the doctor's reasoning powers will be brought to bear and on which he will base his diagnosis. — Marcel Proust

But I guess I still have this fear that you can catch invisible things from other people. That someone else's insanity can creep under your skin and fry your brain. — Kathleen Hale

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story. — Frank Yerby

There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. — Charles Rosin

I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited. — Neil Gaiman

Watching Joel sip his iced tea and listen to stories of my childhood, the ones my mom told at all of the family gatherings, I felt my heart warm. He'd been there too. And as she spoke in scattered memory he was probably filling in the small details that had been lost and forgotten in time by everyone else. — Shawn Kirsten Maravel

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story. — Rob Walton

First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich' it said, then looked annoyed, and spoke incoherently into a grille set in its belly which replied. It looked up and said, 'Sorry, as I was saying: I come in peace — Iain M. Banks