Tutors And Governors Quotes & Sayings

in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent), — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67) — Tom Perrotta

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.' — Robert A. Heinlein

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. — Anna Brownell Jameson

I'll give you a hint," the woman said with a smile that held no friendliness at all. "You've slept with my husband."
"That doesn't winnow the field down as much as you think it would. — Tiffany Reisz

I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different cultures and centuries have the same idea of what mermaids are ... so that's maybe a cool thing to think about. — Emma Roberts

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington. — Billy Graham

Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me. — J.R.R. Tolkien

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. — Lois Lowry