Hanscomb Yardsticks Quotes

#1. You must graciously handle every challenge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. That beautiful mild woman for whose sake
There's many a one shall find out all heartache
On finding that her voice is sweet and low
Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know-
Although they do not talk of it at school -
That we must labor to be beautiful.

W.B.Yeats

#3. Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

Charles Baudelaire

#4. When Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!

Apostolos Doxiadis

#5. When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

Jarvis Cocker

#7. True happiness is the contentment of soul, and the joy of inner heart.

Flora D.

#8. The army is the true nobility of our country.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

Arthur Koestler

#10. To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

Colin Montgomerie

#11. She'd thought that she would do anything for them, but it had never occurred to her that "anything" might mean letting them go.

Laini Taylor

#12. This is never going to be over," I shout. "Someone will always be after me. There's always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.

Holly Black

#13. Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.

Gabrielle

#14. Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.

Sebastian Faulks

#15. Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

J.I. Packer