School Compound Quotes

#1. Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

#2. Without equality there can be no democracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#3. You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.

Sherman Alexie

#4. Justification is a word that simply means that our record is both "just as if we had never sinned" and also "just as if we had always obeyed.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#5. No, Mother, it is better as it is, and I'm glad Amy has learned to love him. But you are right in one thing. I am lonely, and perhaps if Teddy had tried again, I might have said 'Yes,' not because I love him any more, but because I care more to be loved than when he went away.

Louisa May Alcott

#6. Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

Plautus

#7. There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological thing, like schizophrenia. We all think we know things, but we don't know a damn thing. Whether God exists, why we're here ... Nobody really knows any of it.

Anthony Hopkins

#8. Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly

#9. TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY. Not true. Today is another day. We have no idea what tomorrow is going to be. It might turn out to be another day, but we can't be sure. If it happens, I'll be the first to say so. But, you know what? By that time, it'll be today again

George Carlin

#10. There is no such thing as nonfiction.

Tom Waits

#11. Only I know my life.

Ginger Rogers

#12. I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

Dambisa Moyo

#13. Just know that whatever you invest your time doing, you'll become that real soon.

Terraine Francois

#14. All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Marshall McLuhan