Westernaires Varsity Quotes & Sayings

If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand. — Mary E. Pearson

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. — Stephen Gardiner

Tiko has taught me, a sometimes headstrong and often ferociously independent woman, the importance of interdependence, the importance of taking care, and the importance of being cared for. It's a necessary part of being human and being connected to the world around us that we realize and acknowledge our vulnerability and the vulnerability of all creatures, and that we act in accord with that knowledge. It is critical that we allow the empathetic and altruistic part of ourselves to be the guiding force behind the way that we conduct our lives, whether we give to those less fortunate than ourselves, take care of the magnificent creatures that share our world, work tirelessly to preserve native habitat or separate each strand of an unruly mass of hair so gently that we do not wake our loved one as she sleeps. — Joanna Burger

Everyone say to himself: 'When was the last time I went to confession?' And if it has been a long time, don't lose another day! Go, the priest will be good. And Jesus, (will be) there, and Jesus is better than the priests - Jesus receives you. He will receive you with so much love! Be courageous, and go to confession, — Pope Francis

I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before. — James A. Michener

The Abba Evagrius (who died in 399) taught: There are eight principal thoughts, from which all other thoughts stem. The first thought is of gluttony; the second, of fornication; the third, of love of money; the fourth, of discontent; the fifth, of anger; the sixth, of despondency; the seventh, of vainglory; the eighth, of pride. Whether these thoughts disturb the soul or not does not depend on us; but whether they linger in us or not and set passions in motion or not - does depend on us. — Dallas Willard

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it. — Fanny Fern

If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one. — Robert Brault

I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process. — Stephen Stills

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America. — Kelly Osbourne

I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of course, and while the Natural History Museum was filled with dead things, the phoenix is always alive. — Neil Gaiman

If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, "Like people everywhere!" Uniformity marks the human race. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. — William Collins

I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The — H.G.Wells

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. — Mario Vargas-Llosa