Trimestre In English Quotes & Sayings

When my dad came here, he came on a scholarship in the late '60s, and he went to Mississippi State. My dad is not a large man. So there's a little Taiwanese guy walking around Mississippi in, like, 1966, and I cannot imagine what that must have been like. — Kelvin Yu

How does the body come to be apprehended as a body? Why does it not fall apart into the seen and the heard, the smelt, the tasted and the touched? — Nanamoli Thera

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog ... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man. — Mindy Kaling

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals. — Gillian Jacobs

If everything turned out just the way everybody expected, life would be exceedingly dull, and learning in any useful sense simply would not occur. — Harrison Owen

Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded. — Benjamin Franklin

The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity. — Alfred Armand Montapert

It's amazing how much one person can stand if there are only small changes from one day to the next. — Chris Dietzel

Some would even support the reopening of the African slave trade so that men like them could expand their labor force and non-slaveholders might have the opportunity to join the slaveholding class. — Steven Hahn

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ. — Willie Aames

Ascott scrambled for his dive knife, he and waved the four- inch blade between himself and the octopus. The floating sack of tentacles hesitated and then all eight of its arms snapped forward. Curled in the tip of each was a variety of sharpened implements, from swords and dive knives to a fishing spear. The large unblinking eyes seemed to be saying, Your move. — Paul Mannering