Violents Affrontements Quotes & Sayings

Never perform for your family. They either laugh too hard or not at all. — Jay Leno

Zeno was concerned with three problems ... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. — Robert Frost

In his heart, she'd been smiling for him.
But now she was smiling at Colin Bridgerton, he of the famous charm and sparkling green eyes. — Julia Quinn

You were a laugh with some potential. Now you're but a pricey pain. — David Hine

When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice had a family with a station wagon, a split-level house, and a pool.
But then I looked up and saw Mary Alice's toes, as she stood at the edged of the diving board. Her second toe lay on top of her big toe on each foot. I had never seen such a thing. I wondered if Mary Alice's toes would ever prevent her from doing the things she wanted to do in life.
"Look, y'all!" she said, forming her perfect body into a perfect swan's dive. I decided then that any time I got frustrated with my overall situation in life, mad or jealous of knee socks or a pink canopy bed in a pink room, I'd take a deep breath and think about Mary Alice's toes. At least I didn't have Mary Alice's toes. — Margaret McMullan

They both swam in the Pacific a great deal. It was warmer than the Atlantic, and friendlier. It held no memories. The boy began to get very brown. — Stephen King

Humility, and the most patient perseverance, seem almost as necessary in gardening as rain and sunshine, and every failure must be used as a stepping-stone to something better. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

I was good at keeping my mother from crying. — Bernie Mac

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue. — Elaine Pagels