Publinet Concours Quotes & Sayings

While standardized tests can certainly be useful for scientifically investigating the mind and brain, and can greatly inform educational interventions, there's no reason why educators or anyone else for that matter needs to compare the intelligence of one person to another based on a single dimension of human variation. — Scott Barry Kaufman

Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief. — Jane Austen

We tore each other's clothes off like they were on fire. She was gorgeous. Firm and strong and a shape like a dream. Skin like silk. She pulled me to the floor through bars of hot sunlight from the window. It was frantic. We were rolling and nothing could have stopped us. It was like the end of the world. We shuddered to a stop and lay gasping. We were bathed in sweat. Totally spent. — Lee Child

It's like this," he repeated in a low voice, just for her. "I'm not that sort of man. I don't wait for the things I want. — Tessa Dare

Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?) — Noel Coward

Of course, like all over-simple classifications of this type, the dichotomy becomes, if pressed, artificial, scholastic and ultimately absurd. But if it is not an aid to serious criticism, neither should it be rejected as being merely superficial or frivolous: like all distinctions which embody any degree of truth, it offers a point of view from which to look and compare, a starting-point for genuine investigation. — Isaiah Berlin

To become a vampire, you must be bitten by one. To become a ninja, you first have to allow yourself to be one. — Jarius Raphel

He made a production out of answering her, marching around to her side of the car, carrying his belly in front of him like a gift. — Ross Macdonald

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. — Francesca Annis

The killing of his kid brother had drained Josiah Hedges of everything that is good and decent in the human spirit. He was now a killer of the worse kind. A man alone. — George G. Gilman

She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out. — Jill Mansell