Xaverian Brothers Quotes & Sayings

A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget. — Anthony Trollope

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again ... ?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place. — Tatiana Maslany

There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear. — Stella McCartney

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George E. Woodberry

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job. — Kate Reardon

To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable. — Terrence W. Deacon

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about. — Scott Aukerman

The rejection of sabotage in the metropole, based on the argument that it would be better to take things over instead of destroying them, is based on the dictum: The people of the Third World should wait for their revolution until the masses in the metropole catch up. — Red Army Faction

He cupped my face in his hands and wiped my tears with his thumbs.
"Better?"
"Yes."
He looked into my eyes and said, "I'll never leave you alone, Anna. Not if I can help it. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us. — Henry B. Eyring

I was an idiot," were my mother's last words. I'll never know what she meant because I wasn't there when she died. I am left with unanswered questions while I grieve for a woman I had barely spoken to during the last six months of her life. In fact, by the time I found out she had six months to live we'd been estranged for almost a year. — Amy Passantino

I love folk; that's a big part of my background. — Amy Lee

Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through adversity — Morgan Matson

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results! — Andrew Johnson