#passing

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less? ↗

— William Glasser

#competence #competent #get #grade #help

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. ↗

— Nancy Astor

#also #blame #chance #first #first time

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#easier #fame #gracefully #growing #growing old

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. ↗

— Howard Carter

#astonished #beauty #could #displayed #imagined

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #direction #electric #external #field

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#american #born #cabin #coincidence #cooper

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #because #best #entire #entire life

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#cover #ground #harder #i #i think

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. ↗

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#me #moment #passing #photography #true

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#climate #coast #dwellers #england #even