Beneplacito In English Quotes & Sayings

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence. — Bonnie Greer

Has it ever occurred to you that a woman, when she is powerful, is more powerful than a man?" "Powerful in a different way, perhaps." Laud said: "It's a power partly based on fear. Perhaps the fear is atavistic, memories of babyhood. Women change the nappy, give the breast or withhold it." Langton said with a faint smile: "Not now, apparently. Fathers change nappies and it's usually a bottle." "But I'm right, Hubert, about power and fear. I wouldn't say it outside these walls, but life in Chambers would be a great deal easier if Venetia fell under that convenient Number 11 bus." He paused, and then asked the question to which he needed an answer. "So I have your support, have I? Can I take it that I'm your choice to succeed you as Head of Chambers? — P.D. James

The best time to seek God is when it's really hard to find the time because that's when we probably need Him the most. — Alisa Hope Wagner

To give my next novel balance, I'm going to begin it with "The start" followed by a dozen carriage returns. It offsets the words, "The end. — Michael Kroft

or at least I felt that within the lie there was a deeper truth. — Zadie Smith

Forgiveness before one's death, isn't just about asking and receiving it, it's also about forgiving others. — Neha Yazmin

You can think of me thinking of you, because that's what I'll be doing whenever you think of me. — Jonathan Franzen

All is fair in love and war — John Lyly

If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals. — Chuck Grassley

In our social world we have only a thin layer of topsoil-tolerance-for people and cultures that are different from our own. When times get hard, there is nothing left to
nourish us, and we snarl over limited profits or limited resources. It seems clear that the work of spiritual regeneration has to begin now.
These — Gary Holthaus

The leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living. — Mary Parker Follett

And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war — Allen Ginsberg

The thing with do-overs it's that they don't exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up. — Melody Manful

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together. — Boris Kodjoe