Accosted Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

Beautiful blessings sometimes come wrapped in ugly providences. — Matshona Dhliwayo

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota

when dreams died, the heart grew bitter. — Kim Fielding

Any time a customer comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression. — Jan Carlzon

There were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utterance, or comprehend much of the purport of what they said ... yet French, in the mouths of Frenchmen or Belgians ( ... ), was as music to my ears. One of these gentlemen presently discerned me to be an Englishman - no doubt from the fashion in which I addressed the waiter; for I would persist in speaking French in my execrable South-of-England style, though the man understood English. The gentleman, after looking towards me once or twice ,politely accosted me in very good English; I remember I wish to God that I could speak French as well; his fluency and correct pronunciation impressed me for the first time with a due notion of the cosmopolitan character of the capital I was in, it was my first experience of that skill in living languages I afterwards found to be so general in Brussels. — Charlotte Bronte

All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right. — William Butler Yeats

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before. — P.J. Harvey

And I know I'm about to play second fiddle to another woman, as I should. But my love for you will never change, Maxon. — Kiera Cass