Veerle Dobbelaere Quotes & Sayings

I just slipped into my mother's office to look at the names of my new peer helpers, and I'm so happy! Your name is on the list! I thought maybe I'd scared you by coming right out and asking you to apply. I realize it's an unusual setup, but try not to think of it as my parents offering to pay people to be my friend. I know there's something unsettling and prideless in that. I prefer to think of it this way: my parents are paying people to pretend to be my friend. This will be much closer to the truth, I suspect, and I have no problem with this. I'm guessing that a lot of people in high school are only pretending to be friends, right? It'll be a start, I figure. — Cammie McGovern

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. — Fernando Botero

It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said. — Marty Rubin

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout. — Ashanti

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money. — Thomas Gresham

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other. — George C. Marshall

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love ... I sought what I might love, in love with loving. — Augustine Of Hippo

For me the autumn has never been a sad season. The dead leaves and the increasingly shorter days have never suggested the end of anything, but rather an expectation of the future. In paris, there is an electricity in the air in october evenings at nightfall. Even when it is raining. i do not feel low at that hour of the day, nor do i have the sense of time flying by. i have the impression that everything is possible. the year begins in the month of october. — Patrick Modiano

Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children. — Jason E. Royle

It wasn't desire, it was biology. My body was adapting to the situation. Doing what it needed to survive. That, I was certain of. Because if I had liked it, liked the hands of this monster, that would have made me a monster too. — A. Zavarelli