Year 12 Study Quotes & Sayings

For our international projects we developed an online skilled volunteer job board to help connect skilled individuals around the world who can help with the projects. This is the cost effective channel to achieve a wider reach, which you wouldn't have been possible without technology. — David Batstone

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion. — Ernest Shackleton

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake. — Mahatma Gandhi

A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict. — Juan Manuel Santos

The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao. — Laozi

All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature. — Roald Dahl

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors. — Mau Piailug

I will always have pain. But I exercise as much as I can, and I find that makes a huge difference. And if my body does seize up, I have a pain plan in place. If it escalates, I go back to my doctor. — Jennifer Grey

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

During the development of the whole-body CT scanner, it became clear that the availability of an accurate cross-sectional picture of the body, the CT 'slice,' would have an important effect on the precision and implementation of radiotherapy treatment planning. — Godfrey Hounsfield

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality. — Lauren DeStefano

I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace. — Dean Koontz