Vranckx Tuin Quotes & Sayings

Mike Shea became a medic during the war and was now married, working for Pfizer. To this day he can't look at her straight. To this day she can't quite convince herself that the sin was as grave as it seemed. (She thought, in fact, of telling the priest as he whispered his furious admonitions that she weighed barely a hundred pounds and was as thin as a boy and if he would adjust his imagination accordingly and see the buds of her breasts and her flat stomach and the bony points of her hips, he would understand that even buck naked, her body was not made for mortal sin.) She can — Alice McDermott

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. — Delia Smith

He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension. — Thomas Hardy

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen. — Samantha Power

If there were two enemies hating each other for a long time, to me, the winner would be the one who finally has the courage to forgive. — Primadonna Angela