Velieri Valentina Quotes & Sayings

I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it. — Ewan McGregor

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. — Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. — Nan Fairbrother

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute I thought, he's some mother's son just as Hector was, and aren't we women all sisters? If I killed him, I thought, wouldn't It be like killing family?Wouldn't it be making some other mother grieve? So I didn't kill him, but if I had, I might have saved Hector's child. Dead or damned, that's the choice we make. Either you men kill us and are honored for it, or we women kill you and are damned for it. Dead or damned. Women don't have to make choices like that in Hades. There is no love there, nothing to betray. — Sheri S. Tepper

What's Wal*Mart? Is that were they sell wall stuff? — Paris Hilton

I love learning new techniques. — David Bailey

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future. — Seymour Papert

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours ... what are you? — Randy Quaid

You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage. — Charlie Sheen

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence. — Don Shula

People believe they lack will power, but will power is not something you either have or don't, like blue eyes. Instead, it's a skill, like tennis or typing. You have to train your nervous system as you would train your muscles and reflexes. You have to take yourself to the psychic gym - but with the certainty that each time you practice an alternative behavior, you've made it easier to do next time. — Richard O'Connor

Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people. — Nicholas Sparks

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals. — Sun Tzu