Pts Quotes & Sayings

truth is, I look upon both candidates in the same light; and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country, if I voted for either. If every elector would bring the same consideration home to his conscience, we should not have such reason to exclaim against the venality of pts.5 But we are all a pack of venal and corrupted rascals; so lost to all sense of honesty, and all tenderness of character, that, in a little time, I am fully persuaded, nothing will be infamous but virtue and public-spirit. — Tobias Smollett

*Story of a Girl By:Sara Zarr
*Lexile:760 SRC:12 pts.
*Personal Issues
*Choice of getting a job to move out
*Major Choice
*In Process of making it happen
*It effects her bother his girlfriend and their baby, because they will move out with her too.
*Sometimes we need to take choices that will make your life easier and also others. — Sara Zarr

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle. — John Hersey

The only way that I can survive such a fucked up reality is to act like everything on the outside no longer exists; and that includes feelings, especially feelings for a man." I — Jessica N. Watkins

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it. — Joey Skaggs

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance. — Molly O'Neill

Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade? — Eminem

We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder. — George W. Bush

Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical. — Tim Ferriss

You know I hate to chase. I'm only here to talk, but if you run, I'll have to chase and we both know where that usually ends up. — Kaye Chambers

What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret. — Victor Hugo

Secularism in the Christian world was an attempt to resolve the long and destructive struggle of church and state. Separation, adopted in the American and French Revolutions and elsewhere after that, was designed to prevent two things: the use of religion by the state to reinforce and extend its authority; and the use of the state power by the clergy to impose their doctrines and rules on others. This is a problem long seen as purely Christian, not relevant to Muslims or for that matter to Jews, for whom a similar problem has arisen in Israel. Looking at the contemporary Middle East, both Muslim and Jewish, one must ask whether this is still true
or whether Muslims and Jews may perhaps have caught a Christian disease and might therefore consider a Christian remedy. — Bernard Lewis

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side. — Henry Cavill

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope. — Jane Goodall

Slow motion gets you there faster. — Hoagy Carmichael

I would've liked to think I looked a little more mature than the rest of the girls in the class. Then again, with the majority of them being PTs, I probably looked the most like a fourteen-year-old."
-Devon
First & Then — Emma Mills

I don't know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals. — Jens Peter Jacobsen