Shafins Spoken English Quotes & Sayings

In all these years, I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia. Because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop. — Sergio Mattarella

The major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence. — M.J. Ryan

nationalize the tertiary sector. The bourgeoisie, who wants the spirit of lucre — Frantz Fanon

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress. — Jojo Moyes

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted. — Shia Labeouf

Maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks ... — John Geddes

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree. — John Brunner

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe. — Edward Abbey

The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes seriousand studious at six all seem to surprise their parents. It is difficult to let go of one's image of a child, say goodbye to the child a parent knows, and get accustomed to this slightly new child inhabiting the known child's body. — Ellen Galinsky