Satiating Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They see men drinking, smoking, swearing; so these poor little fellows sedulously imitate such bad habits, thinking they are making themselves more like men. They mistake rudeness for strength, disrespect to parents for independence. They read wretched stories about boy brigands and boy detectives, and fancy themselves heroes when they break the laws, and become troublesome and mischievous. Out of such false influences the criminal classes are recruited. Many a little boy who only wishes to be manly, becomes corrupted and debased by the bad examples around him and the bad literature which he reads. The cure for this is to give him good books, show him truly noble examples from life and history, and make him understand how infinitely above this mock-manliness is the true courage which ennobles human nature. — James Clarke

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world. — Paulo Coelho

I want a happy life. — Michelle Williams

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J.K. Rowling

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me. — Emma Caulfield

It is for the best was on the tip of the priest's tongue. But he thought again of years, of childbearing and exhaustion. The wildness gone, the hawk's grace chained up... He swallowed. It is for the best. The wildness was sinful. — Katherine Arden

The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her. — Gina Barreca

God must love the common man, he made so many of them. — Abraham Lincoln

It wasn't poverty that drove me on. — Aleksandr Kuprin

Adventure, the first great theme of the novel. — Milan Kundera