Being Preppy Quotes

#1. From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.

Kathleen Norris

#2. ...any attempt to define the characteristics of modern society is akin to defining the color of a chameleon.

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal: And the crimson stain that was of Cain Became Christ's snow-white seal. VI.

Oscar Wilde

#4. When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

Cris Judd

#5. Soulless. Banished. But never forgotten.

Julie Kagawa

#6. In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

Crowder

#7. I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.

Bill Maris

#8. As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

Richard Holbrooke

#9. The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity ... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

Marshall McLuhan

#10. I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

Shannon Hale

#11. Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted.

Mary Stewart

#12. I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding ... If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#13. She poured me a cup of coffee and I drank it standing by the back door, looking out of the back garden. I felt it scald my tongue but it did not warm me. It was heavy with sugar but it did not taste sweet. I gave a little sigh. There are some days when nothing seems right.

Philippa Gregory