Pe Trudeau Quotes & Sayings

With infinite patience she prepared to snare and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to her level; she cared nothing for me, she only wanted me to be hers. She was willing to do everything in the world for me except the one thing I wanted: to leave me alone. — W. Somerset Maugham

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. — Cassandra Clare

Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them. — Don Paterson

The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose. — Terry Pratchett

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers. — Dennis Lehane

Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start. — Ruta Sepetys

You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? — J.K. Rowling

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things. — Kate Winslet

When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn our assertiveness against men, we turn it against each other. Thus we remain stuck in the troubles we always had. It is imperative we renovate the machine
no, not renovate it, but smash it entirely, so that we allow women to be all they need to be. — Erica Jong