Menone Platone Quotes & Sayings

When did you know?"
I watched him take a breath, and with it all pretense fell away. All his walls, all his cleverness, all his grandstanding and pretending. He looked vulnerable, and it made my chest ache.
"When I saw you ... — Penny Reid

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal. — Eric Van Lustbader

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it. — David Sedaris

Anne could not believe in their having the same sort of pride, she was pleased with him for not liking Mrs Clay; — Jane Austen

Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race. — Michael Andretti

Sometimes people get a burst of strength. It's a gift from God, I guess. So they can finish their business. — Kathryn Stockett

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness. — Wilford Woodruff

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness. — Judith Guest

And what's so bad about your being deprived of that? ... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft through a life of luxury, ailing more in the mind than they ever are in the body. — Seneca.

[Hilary] ... after you left, I didn't understand what had happened. David, I don't hate you and I don't blame you. I don't think you were happy, and I wasn't that happy either. We were just coasting, seeing what would happen, and then you pulled the plug. Right? — Janice Y.K. Lee

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it. — Heinar Kipphardt

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together. — Tom Waits

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop? — William Stafford