Ragazzine Puttanelle Quotes & Sayings

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. — Lev Grossman

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. — Frederick Lenz

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband. — Liya Kebede

Holden stopped next to the desk and turned around to look at the woman sitting on the couch. Graying hair, but good features and an athletic build. In a flophouse like this, that probably meant a prostitute reaching the end of her shelf life. — James S.A. Corey

Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair. — Matt Damon

As banged up as she is, that's what most people would do. Even if she pulls through, there's no guarantee she'll be much of a dog. He stroked the dog's head and thought, No guarantee any of us will be much of anything, but we still try. — Robyn Carr

I'm so glad He has been teaching me to define His goodness based on who He is, not on my own limited understanding of Him. — Perry Noble

The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. — Carroll Quigley

For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.
And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong. — Alyssa Urbano

I've said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his parents to give. It validated for the Muslim world virtually all of bin Laden's rhetoric. He had always said the Americans will destroy any strong Muslim regime, and we did. — Michael Scheuer