Blonay Switzerland Quotes & Sayings

The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised — Albert Bandura

All bleed who fight with the sword. All confront, with greater or lesser difficulty, the worship of their own flesh. The swordmaiden faces particular obstacles in this matter: she will have seen, in the temples and elsewhere, many images of unscarred women. — Sofia Samatar

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. — Anthony Trollope

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty. — Benjamin Stone

Language is a smokescreen. A psycho in black velvet optioning mischief — Ian Sinclair

The working press -- a strange expression that; it calls up a picture of a horde of other pressmen lolling about Hollywood on sumptuous divans, smother by bevies of attendant odalisques, and thinking scornfully of their colleagues of the WORKING press -- the working press took kindly to the reception for the Baker Street Irregulars. — Anthony Boucher

I was starting to feel like my opposition was futile. Was my resistance worth the weariness that was seeping into my body? I couldn't deny that I coveted him. I recognized my body's demand for him for what it was and I had no disillusionments; I knew that I would enjoy the promises he tantalized me with. — J.M. Northup

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States. — Mario Diaz-Balart

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew. — Garth Brooks

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes. — Yasmina Khadra

She had often disconcerted me by the truth. In the days when we were in love, I would try to get her to say more than the truth - that our affair would never end, that one day we should marry. I wouldn't have believed her, but I would have liked to hear the words on her tongue, perhaps only to give me the satisfaction of rejecting them myself. But she never played that game of make-believe, and then suddenly, unexpectedly, she would shatter my reserve with a statement of such sweetness and amplitude — Graham Greene

I somehow instinctively knew it would be much better to win. — Susan Lucci