Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing – once youve achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim? – Arabella Weir
Look, I want whats good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why cant they all just do what I say when I know Im right? – Arabella Weir
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures. – Arabella Weir
Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. – Arabella Weir
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. – Charles Caleb Colton