Pratique Du Quotes & Sayings

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are. — Sterling K. Brown

Why be concerned about others, come to that, when you've outdone your own self? Set yourself a limit which you couldn't even exceed if you wanted to, and say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them. If there were anything substantial in them they would sooner or later bring a sense of fullness; as it is they simply aggravate the thirst of those who swallow them. — Seneca.

Don't listen to those people who suggest you should be "over" your daughter's death by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such
things have almost never had to get over anything. Or at least not anything that was genuinely, mind-fuckingly, soul-crushingly life altering. Some of
those people believe they're being helpful by minimizing your pain. Others are scared of the intensity of your loss and so they use their words to
push your grief away. Many of those people love you and are worthy of your love, but they are not the people who will be helpful to you when it
comes to healing the pain of your daughter's death.
They live on Planet Earth. You live on Planet My Baby Died. — Cheryl Strayed

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

He's too reasonable," Janice said.

"I agree. But the president's campaign advisors understand controlled violence. They realize that war unites us, brings us together. Yellow ribbons, Support Our Troops, all that. Little wars help win elections, provided they're short. — Phil Harvey

I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent. — Nikki DeLoach

I never thought I'd refer to myself as a hot mess. — Chris O'Dowd

You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces.
I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got. — Caitlin Kittredge

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same. — Michele Jaffe

And then she did something completely unexpected. Having spent the last five minutes complaining about him, and not believing anything that he told her, she came over and hugged him, and kissed his hair. — John Connelly

Sarah felt about great sex the way St. George felt about slaying dragons ... — Magnus Flyte

Uncorsetted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss. — T. S. Eliot

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. — Kin Hubbard

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been. — Jeff Cooper

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you. — Kristin Hannah