Verleiden Engels Quotes & Sayings

Any ordinary man can ... surround himself with two thousand books ... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. — Augustine Birrell

There's even an 1892 novel called Golf in the Year 2000 that (somewhat incredibly) predicts the advent of televised sports. — Chuck Klosterman

Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn't possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. — L.M. Montgomery

I began to pick through the red rivers
of confusion;

I began to take apart
the deep stitches
of nightmares. — Mary Oliver

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. — Fletcher Knebel

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy. — Albert Einstein

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon. — Georges St-Pierre

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created. — Robert Jay Lifton

Imperio!"
Moody jerked his wand, and the spider rose onto two of its hind legs and went into what was unmistakably a tap dance.
Everyone was laughing - everyone except Moody.
"Think it's funny, do you?" he growled. "You'd like it, would you, if I did it to you?"
The laughter died away almost instantly. — J.K. Rowling

The Croatians don't play well without the ball. — Barry Venison

Joe Paterno was a dictator. — Rodney Erickson