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school figures ifs
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
school hard-work church
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
school age taught
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore
school opportunity thinking
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school boys oxford
My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school exercise keys
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. Alan Alda
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
guarantees-that two literature
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. Charles Dickens
guarantees bhutto way
The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact. Benazir Bhutto
guarantees should cautious
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. Elizabeth Loftus
guarantees-that uncharted-waters immigration
This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters. Charles Schumer
guarantees truth-is great-marriage
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees. Demi Moore
guarantees-that careers worry
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around. Barbara Sher
guarantees-that guarantees want
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future Aristotle
guarantees prognosis knows
You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis. Elizabeth Edwards
guarantees-that interesting skins
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin. David Nicholls
wells prodigals
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better. Charles Spurgeon
wells mining
Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch. David Talbot
wells queensland happenings
Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else. Campbell Newman
wells divorced
When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.' Louis C. K.
wells stills
Well, until this very day, I'm still learning. Dennis Brown
wells kate
Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing. Elizabeth Olsen
wells alas
Alas! never had I loved him so well! Charlotte Bronte
wells ifs
I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed. Chi Chi Rodriguez
wells barack
I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans. Bill Ayers