"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out."

-- Stanley Crouch

#Strong Quotes #School Quotes #Personality Quotes

“I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.”

Source : "Greg Rutherford: 'I ate sushi with Charlize Theron and Usher'". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 7, 2016.
“Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.”
“It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.572, 1895.
“I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity â€“ and personal integrity, at that â€“ is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.”
“We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.”
“There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.”
“What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.”

Source : Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.115, Vintage
“Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.”

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