Veintinueve Veces Quotes & Sayings

If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be. — Surya Das

It was the only time I'd ever heard someone ask, "Can you grab me the spoon?" as opposed to "a spoon," which at least connoted there was more than one. — Sarah Dessen

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn. — Teresa Of Avila

Peer-Assessment 25 Peer-assessment helps students in many ways. First, it gives them a chance to compare their own work to that of their peers. This helps them to develop a greater sense of what can be done. Second, it opens up success criteria, ensuring pupils can become more familiar with what they need to do to succeed. Third, it allows students to think of new ideas based on what they see while engaged in the task. You can ask pupils to peer-assess any work produced in class or at home. Just make sure they have a mark scheme or set of criteria to use and that you train them on how to give good feedback (that is clear and focussed on the learning). — Mike Gershon

When we're more interested in telling people what to do than in listening to what they are presently doing, we are off balance. — John C. Maxwell

My family was always supportive when I decided that I wanted to pursue this thing called acting. — Selenis Leyva

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. — Fred Brooks

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works. — Richard K. Morgan

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous
curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life. — Sylvia Plath

Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign. — Hillary Clinton

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up. — E. Haldeman-Julius

It's called 'falling in love' for a reason: it does not have to be forced and cannot be planned. It just happens naturally, and if you're lucky, it takes you by surprise. — Carlos Salinas

We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh air
and realise you can't get up. You're too far down. — Charlotte Eriksson

You want to prove you never stopped loving me?" She got up and stared down at me. "Start by trusting me with the truth. — Lisa Kessler