Leerlingenportaal Pti Quotes & Sayings

Sensuality disappears when we stop exploring curiously and fall into the trap of playing out roles. We start to see ourselves through our partner's eyes and believe that is all we can be. — Adele Green

But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. — Salman Rushdie

He, therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the ancient line of Princes be destroyed; second, that no change be made in respect of laws or taxes; for in this way the newly acquired State speedily becomes incorporated with the hereditary. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start.
Dru Anderson: I don't want to deal with it today.
Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? I'm Graves.
Dru Anderson: I know. Dru.
Graves: Dru. You're new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley. — Lilith Saintcrow

And sometimes she just wants to rage against the machine-even if she's not exactly sure where the machine is or how to properly rage at it. — Rainbow Rowell

I think that translating is the most profound, most intimate way of reading. A translation is a wonderful, dynamic encounter between two languages, two texts, two writers. It entails a doubling, a renewal ... It was a way of getting close to different languages, of feeling connected to writers very distant from me in space and time. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Can you feel the rush? Listen quietly. It's there. It's the sound of a life and spirit being set free. God, help me set myself free from ridiculous and unnecessary expectations. — Melody Beattie

Over the years, she'd learned not to question him too closely - mostly because he wouldn't answer her. — Patricia Briggs

Good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

To dream is to be alive. To hope, to be human. -from THE PROMISE — Iimani David

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all. — Dwight Gooden

Midway from Nothing to the Deity! — Edward Young