Shattuck St Mary Hockey Quotes

#1. She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all those stories were in some way one story: a simple story about being alive, and being a man; a story that, simple as it was, couldn't itself be told.

John Crowley

#4. The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

Susan Sontag

#5. Maybe every act of faith, as they got older, was meant to make up for an earlier act of faith.

Matthew Salesses

#6. So you planned this? The whole time we were together, you were scheming some way to screw up royally so I'd leave you alone?"
"No, Luce," he said, grabbing my hand back. "So I'd leave you alone.

Nicole Williams

#7. If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But if his own conceptions are limited and narrow in their human meaning it seems likely that time will erase his work.

Ben Shahn

#8. Confidence is preparation in action.

Ron Howard

#9. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.

Helen Macdonald

#10. Thomas Buddenbrook's existence was no different from that of an actor - an actor whose lfe has become one long production, which but for a few hours for relaxation, consumes him unceasingly.

Thomas Mann

#11. I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

Deval Patrick

#12. You can no more be black like I am black than I could be black like your grandfather was.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#13. If there was life without pie, then life would be a lie.

Steph

#14. As medical progress has extended our lives, the result has been what's called the "rectangularization" of survival.

Atul Gawande

#15. Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

John Hurt