Preterite Verbs Quotes

#1. Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

Raymond Sokolov

#2. If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist ... I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Jane Fonda

#3. Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse
is to sit here and do nothing.

Rita Dove

#4. I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

Simon Callow

#5. How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Edward Benson

#6. The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.

David Adjaye

#7. Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#8. While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

Theophilus London

#9. I can never stop working hard. Each day I feel that I have to improve. Hardwork ... Determination ... I gotta keep pushing myself.

Michael Jordan

#10. The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity.

J.I. Packer