Plassmann Colette Quotes & Sayings

Even their contemporaries felt that the relationship of Elizabeth and Robert transcended the details on practicality. There had to be some explanation for their lifelong fidelity, and those contemporaries put it down to 'synaptia', a hidden conspiracy of the stars, whose power to rule human lives no-one doubted: 'a sympathy of spirits between them, occasioned perhaps by some secret constellation', in the words of the historian William Camden, writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Theirs was a relationship already rooted in history and mythology. And that moment when Elizabeth heard she had come to the throne encapsulated much about their story. If our well-loved picture of Elizabeth's accession is something of a fantasy - if the reality is on the whole more interesting - you might say the same about our traditional picture of her relationship with Robert Dudley. — Sarah Gristwood

One out of every four. I have repeated this statistic over and over and still cannot fathom the depth of what it really means. One out of every four girls is sexually abused before the age of eighteen. For boys, the number is one out of six.9 This means one out of every four women at the grocery store, at the bank, at the mall, in the pew at church, and everywhere in "normal" life have had this traumatic experience. For me as a teacher, this means that one out of every four of my precious eighth grade girls will, before they graduate from high school, become one of those victims. — Mary Frances Bowley

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me. — Henry David Thoreau

She continued to look out the window for a moment, her humanity and thoughtfulness tucked away inside a tight frown, an honest brushstroke in a boring painting. — Joseph Fink

The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job. — George Papandreou

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious. — Michael Aspel

Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out want to marry him on even days of the month, so to date we've been spared commitment. — Janet Evanovich

beware the easy path. It's never as simple as it seems. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it. — Stephen Fry

Nobody ever became depraved all at once.
[Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.] — Juvenal

For me, I see filmmaking as art. — Emily Browning

When in that moment, - so it came to pass, - Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass. — William Shakespeare

He already knows I'm his binding mate since I've been appearing in his dreams too, but I'm not sure if he'll be able to contain his loathing for me. — Shannon Duffy