Wadham College Quotes

#1. I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

Tariq Ali

#2. The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.

Wyclef Jean

#3. Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Bill Vaughan

#4. I want to stop running away from everything.
I want to find something to run toward.

Hannah Harrington

#5. I lived in a project and ... didn't have a good education. But ... I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

Evander Holyfield

#6. If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don't make any substantial change.

Tim DeChristopher

#7. Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

Elizabeth Lowell

#8. Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man,

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

Salman Rushdie

#10. It is the simple, dreary day, with its commonplace duties and people that smothers the burning heart--unless we have learned the secret of abiding in Jesus.

Oswald Chambers

#11. You can die of sadness? thinks Juliet; the idea encrusts a soft centre of pure terror.

Carrie Snyder

#12. What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Oooh! He summoned you to the west coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you taking care of that little problem? I should give you a bunny! - Algaliarept

Kim Harrison

#13. There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time ... until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

Juan Rulfo

#14. He still, all these years later, shines brighter to me than other people. Even after I got over him, I was never able to extinguish the fire completely, as if it's a pilot light that will remain small and controlled, but very much alive.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#15. The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene.

Ford Madox Ford

#16. I suggest going to the gym, facing another man, and then punching each other in the face.

Jason Ellis