Sassetta Quotes & Sayings

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show. — Janet Evanovich

One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about. — Nadine Gordimer

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. — Ivan Turgenev

You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red A's on our chests. — Lidia Yuknavitch

In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control. — Louise Hart

I opened my eyes and then slammed them shut because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The fire was all around us. We were in the fire. We should be dead. We would have been dead. My heart began to beat out of control before I felt his fingers on my face. Just be right here with me. Don't think about that. This is going to let me save you. I gasped. I don't want to have hope if it won't work - Ava, he chuckled, look at us. We're standing in fire. I'm getting you out of here. I can feel it. My ability. But — Shelly Crane

He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did. — Diane Setterfield

This has been such a scorching series." - Jamie Leigh — Scarlett Avery

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. — Giovanni Della Casa

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be? — Helen McCrory

It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect. — Jacob Dalton

So what is your star sign?' Said Mary Ellen 'Cunnilingus' Katz answered looking profoundly unhappy. — Bill Bryson