Flotante Translate Quotes & Sayings

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true. — Herbert Read

...true style comes from innate cunning and mendacity. You can't buy it. — Terry Pratchett

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that. — J.I. Packer

It is dancing that brings together tribes from all over North America to compete against each other [in pow wows], to share traditional similarities and differences, and to let non-aboriginal people learn about the first cultures on this continent. The dances change over the years, reflecting new generations and their influences, adapting the traditions of their grandparents and their grandparents' grandparents, to be able to exist in this rapidly evolving world.

"There will always be the elders who shake their heads at the younger generation's behaviour and teenagers who push the boundaries of traditions they have been taught. In dancing, though, everyone can be on the same beat, regardless of their fancy footwork or swirling shawls. — Lori Henry

A person who refuses to manage himself and discipline his flesh will be disciplined and taught by life itself. — Sunday Adelaja

I didn't really know about Marilyn Manson - it's not my sort of music, not exactly the sort of thing I would curl up and listen to! — Twiggy

If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it. — Marissa Meyer

Friends: how many have 'em?
How long before they split like atoms?
Don't ask me, but what I do stand behind
Is someone havin' your back seems hard to find. — Kelvin Mercer

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors. — Ben Stiller

I can kill a dog in six ways. Five of them are throwing missiles at it. — Eugene Mirman

A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on. — P.D. James