Vitry Stars Quotes & Sayings

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around. — Lorrie Moore

Success is like a locked door, to open and get it through, you need to create your own key. — Zeeshan Ahmed

Be moved by a person's actions, not their words. Remember a sugar-coated lie sounds more convincing than the naked truth. — Angeline M. Bishop

[...] something that was called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary. — David Lagercrantz

But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle. — David Gemmell

But our only chance of understanding it is to banish from our minds western conceptions and accept as facts what seem like wild imaginings. — Hester Donaldson Jenkins

When Mantle faced the cameras for the last time a month before his death, he was a husk of a man, shrunken by cancer. The stiff brim of his 1995 All-Star Game cap dwarfed his brow. There was no Mantle Roll. He looked straight into the cameras and told us all, 'Don't be like me.'

The transformation of The Mick parallels the transformation of American culture from willful innocence to knowing cynicism. To tell his story is to tell ours. — Jane Leavy

Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth. — Jimmy Durante

Good boy" can be canceled out the next day by "bad boy." "You're a smart girl" by "What a stupid thing to do!" "Careful" by "Careless" . . . and so on.

But you can't take away the time he shoveled the whole walkway even though his arms were tired and his toes were frozen. Or the time he made the baby laugh with his goofy faces when the babysitter couldn't get her to stop crying, or found his mom's reading glasses, or figured out how to make the alarm on the cell phone stop going off when no one else could do it. These are the things he can draw upon to give himself confidence in the face of adversity and discouragement. In the past he did something he was proud of, and he has, within himself, the power to do it again. — Julie King

In other words, I was a moderately happy penguin who was occasionally attacked by sadness. — Takuji Ichikawa

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson