Correnti Oceaniche Quotes & Sayings

Discussing the character of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice is a matter of content (of 'what?'), whereas examining Jane Austen's techniques of characterisation is a question of form (or 'how?'). Some may find these fine distinctions scholastic, but then some find any fine distinctions scholastic. — Terry Eagleton

door from the outside. It was hard to find food. — Lucy Lipiner

There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression
and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely. — G.K. Chesterton

...it felt like we were friends. Friends who barely knew anything about each other except the other's most private secret. — Alice Oseman

Maman!
The word seems to come out of me all on its own. I think it's strange my mouth would do that. The rest of my head knows she's never there. — Claire King

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment. — Todd Young

If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of such a thing - that no matter how dire the circumstances, she would find a better way. She was so naive, so arrogant to think that the laws of necessity and unthinkable circumstance could not apply to her. She could tell herself that this was an act of mercy, but that would be a lie. This was an act of war. An act of terrorism. It was nothing less than an assassination.
If I do this, Allie told herself, I am no better than Mary. I will have sunk to the worst possible place a person can go. After this moment, I will be a cold-blooded killer and it can never be taken back.
So the question was, did Allie Johnson have the strength to sacrifice all that was left of her innocence if it meant she might save the world? — Neal Shusterman

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more. — John Lancaster Spalding

It's not actually that hard to be an expert on Iran. You only need to know two phrases: "I don't know" and "it depends. — Kenneth Pollack

I'd hate to have a kid like me. — Bill Watterson

It's very uncomfortable to be a hero, Joel, and you don't have the figure for it. — Ayn Rand

From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first. — A.A. Milne